ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the dominant white racial frame and the way that it has developed and impacted this society and others across the globe. It considers a few other important frames that have also developed over the last four centuries, frames that provide alternative or countering perspectives to the dominant white framing. In examining the contested history of the white racial frame, the chapter discovers at least the four important categories of frames in everyday operation. These categories of frames include the dominant white racial frame, a white-crafted liberty-and-justice frame, the anti-oppression counter-frames of Americans of color, and the home-culture frames that Americans of color have drawn on in developing their counter-frames. When it comes to everyday interactions, the white racial frame routinely eclipses the liberty-and-justice frame, which tends to be most openly celebrated in rhetorical speeches at ceremonies and on holidays.
