Children's Racial Categorization in Context

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 33-38

  Pauker, Kristin ^a   Williams, Amanda ^b   Steele, Jennifer R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Racial categorization; Racial stereotyping and prejudice; Social development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958671698     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12155     Document Type: Article

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