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Abstract Black Americans have discovered that, for centuries, the images that blacks have had of themsrlves generally governed their attitudes toward the self and the other as well as their concept of identify. Hitherto, the whites, they felt, have managed to project their negative images of blackness on blacks themselves as a means of humiliating, insulting and enslaving them. This has formed, moreover, the foundation of the superioriting/ inferiority, or master/Slave relationships governing both faction.Thus, blacks haved experienced their existence peimarily in terms of a negative-mirror image of the white world view. |