Cross-racial cooperation can succeed despite divergent motives and interests

Evidence

This black-white coalition of sorts did not represent a unity of motives and interests on the part of black and white women. Rather, their coalition suggests that divergent motives did not preclude mutual goals. For southern black and northern white women, multiple allegiances and interests overlapped sufficiently to create common ground on which to counter the effects of racial oppression. Just as the last decades of the nineteenth century can be characterized as the nadir of race relations and the era of self-help, they can also be characterized as an age of women’s missions and some interracial cooperation. At the same time that black women joined in concerted efforts with black men, they embarked upon a relationship with white women that had no precedent, and perhaps no sequel. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 425

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that the coalition concept requires shared goals, not shared motives — a useful counter to assumptions that cooperation implies agreement.
• XREF: connects to: Cooperation and racial suspicion coexisted on the frontier — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1365; Racial groups hold genuine divergent goals of liking versus respect in cross-racial contact — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 1373; Interdependent cooperation toward common goals reduces intergroup prejudice — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1671 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Cross-racial interactions fail when groups want respect versus warmth #contradicts (0.85)
• Real cooperation runs on mixed motivations that can undermine one another #qualifies (0.83)
• Bonding-only social capital can deepen instead of heal racial division #complicates (0.82) — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 1291
• Cooperation and racial suspicion coexisted on the frontier #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1365
• Intergroup cooperation unravels because free-riding and competition outcompete collective benefit. #complicates (0.80)
• Racial groups hold genuine divergent goals of liking versus respect in cross-racial contact #qualifies (0.78) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1373
• Cooperative pursuit of shared goals builds positive intergroup relations #expands (0.78) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1671
• Cooperation has no single solution; motivations combine and overdetermine action #expands (0.76)
• Interdependent cooperation toward common goals reduces intergroup prejudice #expands (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1671
• Shared exploitation does not preclude racial antagonisms within a class #complicates (0.74) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 138