Race in the making : cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human kinds / Lawrence A. H...
Race in the making : cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human kinds / Lawrence A. H...
Race in the making : cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human kinds / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld.
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, c1996.
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N155.82/5
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English
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xvi, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Representing Race: Universal and Comparative Perspectives -- Ch. 2. Mining History for Psychological Wisdom: Rethinking Racial Thinking -- Ch. 3. Domain Specificity and the Study of Race -- Ch. 4. Do Children Have a Theory of Race? -- Ch. 5. Race, Language, and Collective Inference -- Ch. 6....
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. ; London, England : MIT Press, c1996.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c1996.
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Summary
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...
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Race in the making : cognition, culture, and the child's construction of human kinds / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld.
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Learning, development, and conceptual change.
"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-217) and index.
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c1996.
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N155.82/5
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74VvDyLlE7OM
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0262082470 (hard : alk. paper)
9780262082471 (hard : alk. paper)
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155.82
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991005076389702626
