Summary Of John Duckitt's Theory Of White Dominance

The exploitation of black culture is infinite, the idea that one’s culture can be defiled and used by another for its aesthetically pleasing aspects is rather disturbing. Author Hugo Ball said from the negro we take only the magical-liturgical bits, and only the antithesis makes them interesting to us (Ball 1983) This idea of exploitation arises from the theory of white dominance, the four aspects of John Duckitt’s theory have been explored within the dissertation; minimal group paradigm, social positionality, social dominance theory and privilege and penalty. (Duckitt, 1998) White systems of dominance and subordination are placed in an evolutionary context and such group-based arrangements have been ever-present and are inevitable which is