integrationist
noun
in·te·gra·tion·ist
ˌin-tə-ˈgrā-sh(ə-)nist 
: a person who believes in, advocates, or practices social integration
integrationist
adjective
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The vampires present themselves as warmhearted integrationists, but their egalitarian welcome comes at the price of their victims’ souls—even while bestowing on them the ironic gift of immortality (of the literal sort).
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025
But his move to sideline the group’s white members made Lewis and his allies seem like a bunch of old-fashioned integrationists, too concerned with what white folks wanted—and therefore not concerned enough with what Black folks needed.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
In the eighties and nineties, integrationists like my parents moved to the U.S., joined corporations as scientists, and largely avoided joining Chinese communities.
—Chang Che, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
Schulz, the former president of the European Parliament, is a committed EU integrationist.
—Anton Shekhovtsov, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2017
King, on the other hand, was viewed as an integrationist who believed that white and Black people could address those injustices together and eventually live side by side.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2024
Strategic autonomy could be the vision that rallies both integrationists such as Macron and more conservative figures such as Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz without giving in to the illiberalism of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
—Benjamin Haddad, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2018
One such group was Umbra, a collective of ideologically heterogeneous Black writers on Manhattan’s Lower East Side — among its members were the poets Thomas Dent, an integrationist, and Rolland Snellings (later known as Askia Touré), a Black nationalist — that formed in 1962.
—New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
That’s the case even though Still, a committed integrationist, didn’t want his work to be viewed merely through a racial lens.
—New York Times, 28 May 2021
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2025
But his move to sideline the group’s white members made Lewis and his allies seem like a bunch of old-fashioned integrationists, too concerned with what white folks wanted—and therefore not concerned enough with what Black folks needed.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
In the eighties and nineties, integrationists like my parents moved to the U.S., joined corporations as scientists, and largely avoided joining Chinese communities.
—Chang Che, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
Schulz, the former president of the European Parliament, is a committed EU integrationist.
—Anton Shekhovtsov, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2017
King, on the other hand, was viewed as an integrationist who believed that white and Black people could address those injustices together and eventually live side by side.
—Ronda Racha Penrice, NBC News, 3 Feb. 2024
Strategic autonomy could be the vision that rallies both integrationists such as Macron and more conservative figures such as Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz without giving in to the illiberalism of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
—Benjamin Haddad, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2018
One such group was Umbra, a collective of ideologically heterogeneous Black writers on Manhattan’s Lower East Side — among its members were the poets Thomas Dent, an integrationist, and Rolland Snellings (later known as Askia Touré), a Black nationalist — that formed in 1962.
—New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
That’s the case even though Still, a committed integrationist, didn’t want his work to be viewed merely through a racial lens.
—New York Times, 28 May 2021
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integrationist
noun
in·te·gra·tion·ist
ˌint-ə-ˈgrā-sh(ə-)nəst
: a person who favors integration
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