{"id":3852,"date":"2009-12-13T20:18:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T20:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2011-01-25T01:48:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T01:48:48","slug":"the-inheritability-of-identity-childrens-understanding-of-the-cultural-biology-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3852","title":{"rendered":"The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Child Development<\/a>
\nVolume 66 Issue 5<\/a> (October 1995)
\nPages 1418 – 1437
\nDOI: 10.1111\/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00943.x<\/a><\/p>\n

Lawrence A. Hirschfeld<\/a><\/strong>, Professor, Anthropology & Psychology
\nEugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts<\/em><\/p>\n

4 experiments explored adult and grade school children’s beliefs about inheritability of identity, particularly the \u201cone-drop rule<\/a>\u201d that defines children of mixed-race parents as belonging to the racial category of the minority parent.<\/strong> In Study 1, 8- and 12-year-olds (N<\/em>=32) and adults (N<\/em>=43) were asked the category membership of mixed-race children and the degree to which they resembled each parent. Study 2 investigated whether the same-aged children (N<\/em>=36) and adults (N<\/em>=18) expected mixed-race children to have white, black, or intermediate features. Study 3 explored children’s (N=<\/em>46) expectations about the inheritability of the same properties in animals. Older children, like adults, were found to believe that mixed-race children have black racial features. Adults additionally believe that such children inherit the categorical identity of the minority parent. Study 4 repeated the same tasks with black and white children (N<\/em>=39) attending an integrated school. Unlike children attending a predominantly white school, children in the integrated school (regardless of race) expect mixed-race children to have intermediate racial features.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Inheritability of Identity: Children’s Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race Child Development Volume 66 Issue 5 (October 1995) Pages 1418 – 1437 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00943.x Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, Professor, Anthropology & Psychology Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts 4 experiments explored adult and grade school children’s beliefs about inheritability of identity, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[963,1517,5299],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-child-development","tag-lawrence-a-hirschfeld","tag-lawrence-hirschfeld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}