"Whites Shackled Themselves to Race and Blacks Have Yet to Free Ourselves," looks at the cost the American descendants of African slaves have paid for continuing to see ourselves¿and this country¿through the black/white racial frame to which whites shackled themselves centuries ago. It describes the first steps to free ourselves from their "race" shackles and its attendant definition of the black race, which consists of negative stereotypes tied to skin color. It discusses how to redefine oursel