Six Schemata

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Six Schemata

• Contact
• Disintegration
• Reintegration
• Pseudo-Independence
• Immersion-Emersion
• Autonomy

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Internalized Racism

• Contact
• Disintegration
• Reintegration

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Abandonment of Racism

• Pseudo Independence
• Immersion-Emersion
• Autonomy

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ContactHappy Racist

• Schema Satisfaction with racial status quo,
  unawareness of racism, obliviousness to the ways
  in which one personally benefits from racism

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ContactWhen a person is using a contact schema

• The person does not consciously think of himself
  or herself as White
• The person frequently discovers that other
  racial groups exist
• The persons interactions with ALANAs are
  characterized by naivete and curiosity
• The person minimizes or is unaware of racial
  differences in the ways that people are treated

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DisintegrationRescue Me

• Schema Disorientation and anxiety provoked by
  racial moral dilemmas, self-perceived lack of
  race-related social skills, helplessness and
  confusion

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DisintegrationWhen a person is using a
disintegration schema

• The person is aware that one can be kicked out of
  the White group for improper race-related
  behavior
• The person is aware that her or his Whiteness has
  value
• The person is lost in the moral dilemmas of
  race and race relations

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DisintegrationWhen a person is using a
disintegration schema

• The person feels anxious and guilt-ridden when
  race is a concern
• The person is consciously aware that being White
  means having more privileges

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ReintegrationOrdinary Racism

• Schema Idealization of the white group,
  denigration of other groups (especially people of
  color), intolerance for ALANAs and white
  liberals

• Schema Idealization of the White group,
  denigration of other groups (especially People of
  Color), intolerance for ALANAs and White
  liberals

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ReintegrationWhen a person is using the
reintegration schema

• Believes that he or she is innately better than
  ALANAs because he or she is White
• Holds exaggerated positive stereotypes of Whites
  (like oneself) and exaggerated negative
  stereotypes of ALANAs
• Directs anger and hostility toward ALANAs and
  other people of color because they are not White

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ReintegrationWhen a person is using the
reintegration schema

• Denies the existence of racism in any form
• Uses her or his form of being White to define the
  standard of what is good, moral, and socially
  desirable

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Pseudo IndependenceWhite Liberal

• Schema Intellectualized commitment to the White
  group, rational tolerance of ALANAs,
  maternalistic or paternalistic orientation toward
  People of Color

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Pseudo Independence When a person is using this
schema, the person

• Can articulate principles of racial fairness, but
  not live by them
• Believes that Whites and White culture are best,
  but ALANAs can be helped to reach the higher
  standards
• Feels a responsibility for helping ALANAs become
  more similar to Whites

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Pseudo Independence When a person is using this
schema, the person

• Uses oneself as the standard toward which ALANAs
  should aspire
• Depends on ALANAs (especially Blacks) to reveal
  whether or not he or she is racist
• Assumes that ALANAs (especially Blacks) are the
  experts on racism

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Immersion-Emersion Caped Crusader

• Schema Emotional search for understanding of
  racism on a personal level, redefinition of
  Whiteness, attempted re-education of other Whites

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Immersion-Emersion When a person is using this
schema

• Assumes personal responsibility for racism
• Notices both positive and negative components
• Thinks he or she is more knowledgeable about
  racial matters than most White people

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Immersion-Emersion When a person is using this
schema

• Is searching for a non-racist self-definition of
  Whiteness
• Attempts to re-educate other White people

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AutonomyHumanist

• Schema Informed positive commitment to the White
  group, use of internal self-definitional
  standards, willingness to relinquish ones own
  privileges of racism capacity to view
  race-related situations from many perspectives

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AutonomyWhen a person is using this schema, the
person

• Accepts his or her membership in the White group
• Has a personally meaningful non-racist standard
  on Whiteness
• Is continually nurturing and re-examining his or
  her standard of Whiteness

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AutonomyWhen a person is using this schema, the
person

• Values diversity including his or her own
• Does not depend on ALANAs to validate their
  non-racist status
• Understands that internalizing a non-racist
  identity is an ongoing process

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Six Schemata
Autonomy
Reintegration
Immersion-Emersion
Disintegration
Pseudo-Independence
Contact
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Enter Hurricane Katrina

• Refugees
• Poverty is the problem
• Were afraid of those people
• Lets Move Them to Trailer Parks
• Black People Have A Problem
• I see Americans in trouble