Contact Status: OBLIVIOUS
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| Satisfaction with
racial status quo. |
| Obliviousness to
racism and one's participation in it.
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Disintegration Status: SUPPRESSION and
AMBIVALENCE
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| Disorientation and
anxiety provoked by irresolvable racial moral dilemmas that force one to
chose between own group loyalty and humanism. May be stymied by
life situations that arouse racial dilemmas.
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Reintegration Status: SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
and NEGATIVE OUT GROUP DISTORTION
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| Idealization of
ones socio-racial group, denigration and intolerance for other groups.
Racial factors may strongly influence life decisions.
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Pseudo-Independence Status: RESHAPING
REALITY and SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
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| Intellectualized
commitment to one's own socio-racial group and deceptive tolerance of
other groups. May make life decisions to "help" other
racial groups.
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Immersion/Emmersion Status: HYPERVIGILANCE
and RESHAPING
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| Search for an
understanding of the personal meaning of racism and the ways by which
one benefits and a redefinition of whiteness. Life choices may
incorporate racial activism.
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Autonomy Status: FLEXIBILITY and COMPLEXITY
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| Informed positive
socio-racial group commitment, use of internal standards for
self-definition, capacity to relinquish the privileges of racism.
May avoid life options that require participation in racial oppression. |
