Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds

by Lawrence A. Hirschfeld

Book Overview

In Race in the Making , 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. He also challenges the conventional wisdom that race is purely a social construction by demonstrating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262082470
• ISBN13: 9780262082471
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher