Racial Integration and Devaluation

Reply to Stanley, Valls, Basevich, Merry, and Sundstrom

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ID9687635
AuthorsD C Matthews (0000-0003-1093-6809, York University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume62
Issue1
Pages85-94
Publication date2023-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0012217322000324
OpenAlexW4377832764
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

In “Racial Integration and the Problem of Relational Devaluation,” I argue that blacks should reject racial integration on self-protective and solidarity grounds. Integration will intensify the self-worth harms of stigmatization and phenotypic devaluation by leading blacks to more fully internalize their devaluation, and while the integrating process itself might reduce the former, it may well leave in place the latter. In this paper, I reply to the challenges to these arguments presented by Sharon Stanley, Andrew Valls, Elvira Basevich, Michael Merry, and Ronald Sundstrom

Devaluation · Economics · Macroeconomics · Political science · Sociology · Solidarity · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

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