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Problematizing prevalent psychological/behavioral- and/or interpersonal-level discussions of race in early childhood, this paper investigates how race plays out in young American childrens peer culture and reproduces the adults world. Drawing on Foucaultian conceptual tools, the paper employs critical discourse analysis to analyze childrens conversations for a period of six months and addresses how race functions as part of the grid of intelligibility. I view childrens peer culture as a site where social inequality is reproduced through the function of a performative race. The paper concludes with suggestion of a strategic use of race, pointing out how simple avoidance or repression of race could perpetuate this racialized society by making its discursive power more invisible.
