integrationist
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- noun
- /ˌɪntɪˈɡreɪʃənɪst/
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integracionista
- As an integrationist, she believed in bringing diverse communities together to form a unified society.
- black integrationists
- integrationists in Boston
Examples
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However, there is a third group of integrationists who argued that instead of being changed, this system should have simply been made permanent.
Academic text (2001) -
A few historians point to this division in pre-Civil War Boston between black "integrationists" and "separatists," or, to be accurate, between those who extolled individual endeavor at achieving excellence and those who espoused collective effort as a race in gaining economic and political power for black people.
Academic text (2002) -
So that is, we suspect that blacks adopting what people like Dawson would consider integrationist perspective are more likely to feel hopeful about race.
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What is also significant is the fact that such a policy was in line with what the Yemeniyya and like-minded integrationists had called for earlier.
Academic text (1994) -
Umar II attempted to respond to the demands of the integrationist essentially by introducing a unified taxation policy that removed the bases of discrimination.
Academic text (1994) -
In the larger cause of abolition and equality, however, integrationists and "separatists" banded together and won some victories.
Academic text (2002) -
Integrationists continued to ask only for equal rights after the war and asserted that the situation worsened because the spirit of the laws was being violated, not because the spirit itself had some fatal.
Academic text (2002) -
Martin Luther King was a prominent integrationist who advocated for racial equality and social justice.
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The integrationist movement aimed to create harmony between different social groups in the city.
Synonyms
A person who encourages minority groups to adopt the dominant culture
A person who works to bring separate groups together
Antonyms
How Assimilationist
Surface Forms
Morphology
integrationist = integration (transparent) = integrate + ion + ist
Denominal formation from 'integration' with the productive suffix '-ist' yields 'a person who supports or advocates integration', which is a straightforward meaning.
Etymology
The word integrationist comes from integrate ('bring together' or 'make whole') and the ending -ist ('a person who supports something'). So an integrationist is a person who works to unite different racial or social groups into one community.