How Young Children Perceive Race Book

	Series Editor's Introduction
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Field Methods: Working With Children	7
	Selecting a Site	7
	Contact With the Group	9
	My Relationship With the Children	10
	Research Methods, Data Collection, Field Notes, and Analyses	12
	The Children	15
	Problems and Solutions	17
3	The Elementary Schools	20
	School Sites	20
	General School Statistics	21
	School Culture and Racial Integration	24
	The Classrooms	27
	Kindergarten	31
4	Categories and Cognition	34
	The Principle of Dualism	34
	The Children's Classification Scheme for People	40
5	Conceptions of Self	47
	Self-Portraits and Conceptions of Self	48
	The Children's Conceptions of Others	58
6	Friendship and Ethnicity	66
	Cognitive Notions of Friendship	66
	Organizing Principles	67
	Taxonomy of Friend Terms	69
	Categories of Friends	70
	Ranking	72
	The Children's Use of Friend Terms	73
	The Rules of Friendship	74
	Racial Relationships: Making a Friend	75
	Friend Selection	78
	The Girlfriend-Boyfriend Relationship	81
7	Procreation and Race	87
	Childbirth and Procreation	88
	Mommy and the Color of the Baby	93
	The Children's Subjective Feelings on Interracial Unions	101
8	Conclusion	105
	Appendix: Sample Tape Transcription	111
	References	115
	Author Index	127
	Subject Index	131
	About the Author	133