Allport saw race loyalty versus one-world identity as history’s decisive clash.

Evidence

In fact, race itself has become the dominant loyalty among many people … It seems today that the clash between the idea of race and of One World … is shaping into an issue that may well be the most decisive in human history … Can loyalty to mankind [sic] be fashioned before interracial warfare breaks out? (p. 44) In addition, Allport, building on the work of contemporary scholars, suggested the value of structured intergroup contact for improving intergroup relations. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 538

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth tracing how this ‘One World’ framing from 1954 maps onto contemporary superordinate-identity research (e.g., Gaertner’s common ingroup identity model).