Integration should reduce bodily visibility as a measure of social worth, not change identities.

Evidence

I see the challenge of integration less as one of changing identities and building intersubjective empathies than as one [where] the status and visibility of particular bodies recedes as a measure of their social worth and entitlement. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture, 39

Categorization

• APHORISMS: Frames a life-ideal of social inclusion in terms of bodies receding as measures of worth and entitlement.
• SEED: Potential essay angle: what it would mean to design public space, workplaces, institutions so that bodily markers of difference recede as measures of social worth, rather than trying to build empathy or manage identities.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 39
• XREF: connects to: Improving intergroup relations requires changing identity thinking, not identity categories. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 587; Prejudice reduction may not require eliminating perceived group differences — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 898; Group solidarity can form through shared bodily practice, not shared ideas — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 686

Related

• Improving intergroup relations requires changing identity thinking, not identity categories. (similarity 0.79)
• Prejudice reduction may not require eliminating perceived group differences (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Improving intergroup relations requires changing identity thinking, not identity categories. #expands (0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 587
• Prejudice reduction may not require eliminating perceived group differences #expands (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 898
• Group solidarity can form through shared bodily practice, not shared ideas #exemplifies (0.78) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 686