Toward a reconciliation of integration and racial solidarity
Abstract
Both advocates and critics of racial integration have often depicted it as fundamentally hostile to enduring forms of racial identification and racial solidarity. This article questions the presumed antithesis between racial integration and racial solidarity through a sustained engagement with Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative of Integration, which depicts strong forms of racial solidarity as obstacles to integration that citizens must transcend in order to achieve racial justice. Contra Anderson, I argue that, especially under present conditions of racial segregation and inequality, we can and should reconceptualize integration as a process unfolding in time that can incorporate deeply felt racial solidarities without undermining itself. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Ltd.
Publication Title
Contemporary Political Theory
Recommended Citation
Stanley, S. (2014). Toward a reconciliation of integration and racial solidarity. Contemporary Political Theory, 13 (1), 46-63. https://doi.org/10.1057/cpt.2013.13
