Race in the making : cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human kinds /

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 phys...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hirschfeld, Lawrence A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, 1998, ©1996.
©1996
Series:Learning, development, and conceptual change.
Bradford book.
Subjects:
Cognition and culture.
Racism.
Ethnopsychology.
Cognition in children.
Child psychology.
Prejudices in children.
Race.
Cross-cultural studies.
Infants.
Children.
Cognition.
Prejudices.
Concept Formation
Infant
Child
Ethnopsychology
Racial Groups
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Cognition
Prejudice
Cognition et culture.
Racisme.
Ethnopsychologie.
Cognition chez l'enfant.
Enfants > Psychologie.
Préjugés chez l'enfant.
Études transculturelles.
Nourrissons.
Enfants.
Préjugés.
ethnopsychology.
infants.
children (people by age group)
cognition.
race (group of people)
Race
Prejudices
Infants
Cross-cultural studies
Children
Child psychology
Cognition and culture
Cognition in children
Prejudices in children
Racism
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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