The ability to discriminate visually based on race emerges early in infancy: 3‐month‐olds can perceptually differentiate and 6‐month‐olds can perceptually categorize faces by race. Between ages 6 and 8 years, children can sort others into racial groups. But to what extent are these abilities influenced by context? In this article, we review studies on children's racial categorization and discuss how our conclusions are affected by how we ask the questions (i.e., our methods and stimuli), where we ask them (i.e., the diversity of the child's surrounding environment), and whom we ask (i.e., the diversity of the children we study). Taken together, we suggest that despite a developmental readiness to categorize others by race, the use of race as a psychologically salient basis for categorization is far from inevitable and is shaped largely by the experimental setting and the greater cultural context.

中文翻译：

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语境中的儿童种族分类。

在种族初期，便会出现基于种族的视觉辨别能力：3个月大的婴儿可以感知到区分，而6个月大的婴儿可以感知到按种族分类的面孔。在6至8岁之间，儿童可以将其他人归为种族。但是这些能力在多大程度上受上下文的影响？在本文中，我们回顾了有关儿童种族分类的研究，并讨论了我们如何提出问题（即我们的方法和刺激），在哪里提出问题（即儿童周围环境的多样性）如何影响我们的结论。我们问谁（即，我们学习的孩子的多样性）。综上所述，我们建议，尽管发展起来可以按种族对其他人进行分类，