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Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation), leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely bringing a racial minority into the majority culture ...
The integration of individuals (both the integration of immigrants and of linguistic-cultural or ethnic minorities as well as the integration of other population groups, such as people with disabilities or people with a particular sexual orientation) is expressed in forms of social integration, i.e. the integration of individual actors into an ...
Occupational segregation levels differ on a basis of perfect segregation and integration. Perfect segregation occurs where any given occupation employs only one group. Perfect integration, on the other hand, occurs where each group holds the same proportion of positions in an occupation as it holds in the labor force.
The Imperative of Integration is a 2010 book by American philosopher Elizabeth Anderson, published by Princeton University Press.Blending empirical social science with political philosophy, the book argues for racial integration as a moral and democratic necessity to address systemic racial inequality in the United States.
Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve the spatial separation of the races, and mandatory use of different institutions, such as schools and hospitals by people of different races.
Social integration is the process during which newcomers or minorities are incorporated into the social structure of the host society. [ 1 ] Social integration, together with economic integration and identity integration, are three main dimensions of a newcomers' experiences in the society that is receiving them. [ 1 ]
In the United States, school integration (also known as desegregation) is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public and private schools. Racial segregation in schools existed throughout most of American history and remains an issue in contemporary education.
Tariq Modood argues that in the early years of the 21st century, multiculturalism "is most timely and necessary, and [...] we need more not less", since it is "the form of integration" that (1) best fits the ideal of egalitarianism, (2) has "the best chance of succeeding" in the "post-9/11, post 7/7" world, and (3) has remained "moderate [and ...