Theres a Secret in the Village uses the metaphorical imagery of alchemy to explore what the alchemist would consider a prima materia, a substance of little or no value, yet a substance also considered of immense value if allotted the appropriate attention. In the United States, African American urban adolescent males would mirror the prima materia, for America has, by most accounts, "thrown" this population away. This subculture of adolescents feel themselves of a color "blacker than black." This color carries with it a charged shadow image of negativity, causing a color complex which leads...