Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later Free Audiobook Download by Annette Lareau

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In this ground-breaking study, Annette Lareau looks at the experiences of six working-class families in an urban area and finds that their childhood experiences differ starkly from those of the middle class. Lareau uses insights from sociology to investigate how these childhoods shaped the lives of these six children.

Lareau's major contribution was her identification of the importance of class and race in socializing children. In order to better understand how those factors shape children's lives, she interviewed 750 children in white working-class and middle-class families during the pre-adolescence years. Lareau found that while parents raised their children to believe they were equal, they actually had very different definitions of what that meant.

This book provides an in-depth look at the lives of two families and how their childhood experiences were different. In the first part, it discusses how class plays a huge role in home life with children. In the second part, race is explored with a focus on how black families are impacted by high income inequality in America.

A decade before the start of this decade's second edition, Lareau identified three patterns that have persisted in American family life. These are the levels of economic strata and race; the degree to which single parents and married couples control a family's finances; and the pattern of how families decide where to live.

"Anxiously, I fend off their questions with a flurry of new words, none of which explain why I moved here and what I am doing now. The word is difficult to find but it's the one that comes to me: privilege." Annette Lareau