TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirschfeld,Lawrence A.
TI  - Race in the making: cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human kinds 
T2  - Learning, development, and conceptual change
SN  - 0585003092
AV  - BF311 .H54 1996eb
U1  - 155.8/2 20
PY  - 1996///
KW  - Cognition and culture
KW  - Racism
KW  - Ethnopsychology
KW  - Cognition in children
KW  - Child psychology
KW  - Prejudices in children
KW  - fast
KW  - Continental Population Groups
KW  - Cross-Cultural Comparison
KW  - Concept Formation
KW  - Infant
KW  - Child
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Prejudice
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index; 1; Representing race: universal and comparative perspectives --; 2; Mining history for psychological wisdom: rethinking racial thinking --; 3; Domain specificity and the study of race1 --; 4; Do children have a theory of race?1 --; 5; Race, language, and collective inference1 --; 6; The appearance of race: perception in the construction of racial categories1 --; 7; The cultural biology of race1
N2  - In Race in the Making Lawrence Hirschfeld provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power. Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference, nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of other social categories. Instead, his central claim is that racial thinking is the product of a special-purpose cognitive competence for understanding and representing human kinds. By demonstrating that a common set of abstract principles underlies all systems of racial thinking, whatever other historical and cultural specificities may be associated with them, he challenges the conventional notion that race is purely a social construction. After surveying the literature on the development of a cultural psychology of race. Hirschfeld presents original studies that examine children's (and occasionally adults') representations of race. He sketches how a jointly cultural and psychological approach to race might proceed, showing how this approach yields new insights into the emergence and the elaboration of racial thinking
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