ABSTRACT
To the extent that whiteness, for example, both racial and metaphoric, is portrayed in a culture as normal, benign, thoughtful, and aspirational, African Americans by contrast become containers for the qualities that whiteness rejects and for its opposites: deviance, danger, mindlessness, and rapacity (Altman, 2006; Smedley & Smedley, 2005; Laubscher, 2005; Parham, White, & Ajamu, 2000).
