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Race in the Making 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. The book also challenges the conventional wisdom that race is purely a social construction 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.Starting from the commonplace observation that race is a category of both power and the mind, Race in the Making directly tackles this issue. Through a sustained exploration of continuity and change in the childs notion of race and across historical variations in the race concept, Hirschfeld shows that a singular commonsense theory about human kinds constrains the way racial thinking changes, whether in historical time or during childhood.After surveying the literature on the development of a cultural psychology of race, Hirschfeld presents original studies that examine childrens (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 elaboration of racial thinking.

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Race in the Making Learning Development and Conceptual Change Lila - photo 1
Race in the Making
Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
Lila Gleitman, Susan Carey, Elissa Newport, and
Elizabeth Spelke, editors
John Macnamara, Names for Things: A Study in Human Learning (1982)
Susan Carey, Conceptual Change in Childhood (1985)
David Premack, "Gavagai!" or the Future History of the Animal Language
Controversy (1986)
Daniel N. Osherson, Systems That Learn: An Introduction to Learning
Theory for Cognitive and Computer Scientists (1986)
James L. Morgan, From Simple Input to Complex Grammar (1986)
Frank C. Keil, Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development (1989)
Steven Pinker, Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument
Structure (1989)
Kurt VanLehn, Mind Bugs: The Origins of Procedural Misconception (1990)
Ellen M. Markman, Categorization and Naming in Children: Problems of
Induction (1990)
Hnery M. Wellman, The Child's Theory of Mind (1990)
Charles R. Gallistel, The Organization of Learning (1990)
Josef Perner, Understanding the Representational Mind (1991)
Eleanor J. Gibson, An Odyssey in Learning and Perception (1991)
Simon Baron-Cohen, Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of
Mind (1995)
Alvin M. Liberman, Speech: A Special Code (1995)
Barbara Koslowski, Theory and Evidence: The Development of Scientific
Reasoning (1995)
Lawrence A Hirschfield, Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the
Child's Construction of Human Kinds (1996)

title:Race in the Making : Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change
author:Hirschfeld, Lawrence A.
publisher:MIT Press
isbn10 | asin:0262581728
print isbn13:9780262581721
ebook isbn13:9780585003092
language:English
subjectCognition and culture, Racism, Ethnopsychology, Cognition in children, Child psychology, Prejudices in children.
publication date:1996
lcc:BF311.H54 1996eb
ddc:155.8/2
subject:Cognition and culture, Racism, Ethnopsychology, Cognition in children, Child psychology, Prejudices in children.
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Race in the Making
Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction
of Human Kinds
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld
A Bradford Book

The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
Page iv

First MIT Press paperback edition, 1998
1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
Set in Palatino by The MIT Press.
Printed and bound in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hirschfeld, Lawrence
Race in the making: cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human kinds / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld.
p. cm. (Learning, development, and conceptual change)
"A Bradford book.
Includes bibligraphical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-08247-0 (hardcover : alk. paper), 0-262-58172-8 (pb)
1. Cognition and culture. 2. Racism. 3. Ethnopsychology. 4. Cognition in children. 5. Child psychology. 6. Prejudices in children. I. Title. II. Series.
BF311.H54 1996
155.8'2dc20
95-40230
CIP
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Contents
Series Foreword
vii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xv
Introduction
1
Chapter 1 Representing Race: Universal and Comparative Perspectives
19
Chapter 2 Mining History for Psychological Wisdom: Rethinking Racial Thinking
41
Chapter 3 Domain Specificity and the Study of Race
63
Chapter 4 Do Children Have a Theory of Race?
83
Chapter 5 Race, Language, and Collective Inference
121
Chapter 6 The Appearance of Race: Perception in the Construction of Racial Categories
135
Chapter 7 The Cultural Biology of Race
159
Conclusion
187
Appendix
199
References
201
Index
219

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Series Foreword
This series will include state-of-the-art reference works, seminal monographs, and texts on the development of concepts and mental structures. It will span domains of knowledge from syntax to geometry to the social world, and it will be concerned with all phases of development, from infancy through adulthood. The series intends to engage these fundamental questions:
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