Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:50:06 -0700
From: saul steier <sauls-AT-sfsu.edu>
Subject: RE: White mens problems


>There is a whole are of developmental research on stereotyping and
>cognitive catagorizing that is learned and that there is a developmental
>progression about "others" ...beginning from Ainsworth's work about
>"strange situation" at around 9 mos....Katz' work on the development of
>racial identity and there is a whole slew of stuff about this...its a major
>area of research......very interesting...
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>its about categories and how they work....are constructed and
>reconstructed....why, how....
>what we look at here mainly in narrative, film...own experiences....the
>research attempts to look at empirically and experimentally....
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>and as wolf said...the "black" thing isn't only held by "white"
>men/women....but more about degrees of differences and potentials for
>catagory inclusion....look at Ireland...how can some of us tell one side
>from the other...but folks on the "sides" sure can...and its got little to
>do with color......
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could the list members get more information about the work by Ainsworth and
Katz.? thanks in advance

Saul Steier
Department of Humanities
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 338-3129
sauls-AT-sfsu.edu




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