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Why do we Think Racially? A Critical Journey in Culture and Evolution

Edouard Machery
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Luc Faucher
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Many contemporary theories of racial categorization are encompassed by two research traditions — social constructionism and the cognitive cum evolutionary approach. Although both literatures have plausibly some empirical evidence and some theoretical insights to contribute to a full understanding of racial categorization, there has been little contact between their proponents. In order to foster such contacts, we review critically both traditions, focusing particularly on the recent evolutionary/cognitive explanations of racial categorization. On the basis of this critical survey, we put forward a list of eleven requirements that a satisfactory theory of racial categorization should satisfy. We conclude that despite some decisive progresses, we are still far from having in hand a complete, satisfactory theory of why humans classify people on the basis of skin color, body appearance or hair style.
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ijn_00000531 , version 1 (12-09-2004)

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Edouard Machery, Luc Faucher. Why do we Think Racially? A Critical Journey in Culture and Evolution. H. Cohen C. Lefebvre. Categorization in Cognitive Science, Elsevier, 2004. ⟨ijn_00000531⟩

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