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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 child's 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 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 elaboration of racial thinking

Cognition and culture. --- Racism. --- Ethnopsychology. --- Cognition in children. --- Child psychology. --- Prejudices in children. --- Cognition et culture --- Racisme --- Ethnopsychologie --- Cognition chez l'enfant --- Enfants --- Préjugés chez l'enfant --- Psychologie --- Cognition and culture --- Racism --- Ethnopsychology --- Cognition in children --- Child psychology --- Prejudices in children --- Culture --- Psychology, Social --- Age Groups --- Population Groups --- Thinking --- Mental Processes --- Persons --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Sociology --- Named Groups --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Infant --- Prejudice --- Cognition --- Continental Population Groups --- Concept Formation --- Child --- Psychology --- Bias, Racial --- Race bias --- Race prejudice --- Racial bias --- Prejudices --- Anti-racism --- Race relations --- Prejudices and antipathies (Child psychology) --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- National characteristics --- Cognition (Child psychology) --- Thought and thinking in children --- Culture and cognition --- Ethnophilosophy --- Socialization --- Behavior, Child --- Child behavior --- Child study --- Children --- Pediatric psychology --- Psychology, Child --- Child development --- Developmental psychology --- Child psychiatry --- Child rearing --- Educational psychology --- Préjugés chez l'enfant --- Concept Formations --- Formation, Concept --- Formations, Concept --- Race --- Racial Stocks --- Continental Population Group --- Group, Continental Population --- Groups, Continental Population --- Population Group, Continental --- Population Groups, Continental --- Races --- Racial Stock --- Stock, Racial --- Stocks, Racial --- Cognitive Function --- Cognitions --- Cognitive Functions --- Function, Cognitive --- Functions, Cognitive --- Infants --- Transcultural Studies --- Comparison, Cross-Cultural --- Comparisons, Cross-Cultural --- Cross Cultural Comparison --- Cross-Cultural Comparisons --- Studies, Transcultural --- Study, Transcultural --- Transcultural Study --- Science, Social --- Sciences, Social --- Social Science --- General Social Development and Population --- Psychologic Processes and Principles --- Cultural Anthropology --- Ethnography --- Ethnographies --- Person --- Human Information Processing --- Information Processing, Human --- Critical Thinking --- Thinking Skills --- Thinking Skill --- Thinking, Critical --- Indigenous Population --- Native-Born --- Natives --- Tribes --- Group, Population --- Groups, Population --- Indigenous Populations --- Native Born --- Population Group --- Population, Indigenous --- Populations, Indigenous --- Age Group --- Group, Age --- Groups, Age --- Social Psychology --- Psychologies, Social --- Social Psychologies --- Beliefs --- Cultural Background --- Customs --- Background, Cultural --- Backgrounds, Cultural --- Belief --- Cultural Backgrounds --- Cultures --- Custom --- Cultural Characteristics --- Minors --- Psychologic Processes --- Psychological Processes --- Phenomena, Psychological --- Processes, Psychologic --- Processes, Psychological --- Psychological Phenomenas --- Psychological Processe --- Qualitative Research --- Thought --- Thoughts --- Race Factors --- Psychology, Perceptual --- Perceptual Psychology --- Anti-Semitism --- Islamophobia --- Anti Semitism --- Anti-Semitisms --- Islamophobias --- Material Culture --- Culture, Material --- Material Cultures --- Cultural Relativism --- Cultural Relativisms --- Relativism, Cultural --- Relativisms, Cultural --- Critical race theory --- Child Psychology