Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition with an Update a Decade Later
- ISBN-10
- 0520271424
- ISBN-13
- 9780520271425
- Series
- Unequal Childhoods
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 461
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-08-02
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Annette Lareau
Description
This book is a powerful portrayal of class inequalities in the United States. It contains insightful analysis of the processes through which inequality is reproduced, and it frankly engages with methodological and analytic dilemmas usually glossed over in academic texts.
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- 2003-09-11
- 356 pages
- Paperback
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- 2003-09-11
- 331 pages
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- 2005-03-11
- 236 pages
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- 2005
- 244 pages
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