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SUMMARY:Researching or reproducing 'race'?  Problematising racialised diff
 erence in a British primary school. - Dr Caroline Howarth\, Social Psychol
 ogy Institute\, LSE
DTSTART:20070501T120000Z
DTEND:20070501T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Rosie Ensor
DESCRIPTION:This paper discusses the ways in which psychologists have stud
 ied children's understanding of racial categorisation and suggests that we
  need more focus on the ways in children challenge and transgress racial c
 ategorisation. I illustrate the ways in which children contest representat
 ions and practices that 'race' with material drawn from a case study from 
 a predominantly white British primary school. 22 children from a range of 
 cultural background volunteered to discuss their views and experiences of 
 'race' and racism. An analysis of their accounts reveals that racialised d
 ifference is something that is understood as either 'real' - in that it ca
 n be seen\, touched\, and even caught from 'the other' or something that i
 s constructed\, imposed and damaging. The analysis focuses on the ways in 
 which children question and problematise racism and find ways to propose a
 gency and connection. This highlights the possibilities for racialised oth
 ers as agent and not (only) as object of the racialising and racist gaze\,
  and presents the case for thinking and researching beyond racialising rep
 resentations.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Social and Political Science
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