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Race in the Making

Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds

Race in the Making( )
Author: Hirschfeld, Lawrence A.
Series title:Learning, Development and Conceptual Change Ser.
ISBN:978-0-262-08247-1
Publication Date:Aug 1996
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $38.99
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:244
Detailed Subjects: Psychology / Cultural Psychology
Psychology / Developmental / Child
Social Science / Discrimination
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.6 x 22.5 x 1.953 cm
Book Weight:0.528 Kilograms



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