Integration and Reaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald R Sundstrom (University of San Francisco, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-83 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217322000075 |
| OpenAlex | W4377832795 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
D. C. Matthew argues that although integration offers blacks social and economic benefits, it also creates the conditions for phenotypic devaluation that leads to harm against black self-worth and servile behaviour. Therefore, he advises against integration because the resulting self-worth harms outweigh the benefits of integration. I argue that Matthew's cost-benefit calculation against integration lacks the requisite evidence, and amounts to a luxury belief that will result in more harm. Moreover, his interpretation of behaviour — which he construes as being indicative of a lack of self-worth — is unfounded. Further, his cost-benefit calculation results in socially reactionary sexual policing and ideological purity tests
Devaluation · Economics · Epistemology · Harm · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Macroeconomics · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Reactionary · Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |