assimilationist

Examples

• All

• Throughout his life, he supported assimilationist policies such as allotment and Indian education.

  Academic text (2001)

• In fact, the film raises an assimilationist claim, for this Puerto Rican family has achieved their "American Dream."

  Academic text (1996)

• Second, as women developed stronger views about collecting and aesthetic issues, they frequently adopted assimilationist strategies to fit themselves into male-dominated art institutions.

  Academic text (2004)

• Most would agree with the multiculturalists' stated opposition to the assimilationist ideal of a homogeneous superculture.

  Academic text (1992)

• As I will argue below, during the early 1970s, LULAC was in the process of reconsidering its traditional assimilationist or integrationist strategy.

  Academic text (2001)

• In recent years, scholars have challenged the assimilationist view of American Indians moving steadily, over the last century, from Indianness to whiteness.

  Academic text (1999)

• Commentators typically characterize the present period as one of Native American "self-determination," following the assimilationist "Termination Era" of the 1950s and 1960s.

  Academic text (1991)

• The government adopted an assimilationist approach to integrate minority communities into mainstream society.

• Activists criticized the assimilationist policies that aimed to erase distinct cultural identities.

• Her assimilationist views led her to promote programs for language and cultural education in schools.

Synonyms

I

integrationist

vsassimilationist

7.7

Supporting policies that bring different groups together in society

prefers minority adaptation into the dominant culture rather than mutual blending

Antonyms

S

separatist

102 6.8

A person who wants part of a country to become independent

How Assimilationist

assimilationist

1 8.2

integrationist

7.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology