
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition, with an Update a Decade Later
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Narrated by:
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Xe Sands
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By:
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Annette Lareau
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of "leisure" activities; and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security. Lareau shows how middle-class parents, whether black or white, engage in a process of "concerted cultivation" designed to draw out children's talents and skills, while working-class and poor families rely on "the accomplishment of natural growth," in which a child's development unfolds spontaneously-as long as basic comfort, food, and shelter are provided.
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The book can be dry at certains points but that's hard to avoid when you have a research based non-fictinal book.
Overall it is a good investment regardless of what your opinion may be at the end
Very informative book
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Eye opening
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Essential reading for everyone
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Great book on the intersection of Culture, Class, and Education
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Masterful
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Perspective
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Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
No. The data is repetitive and is written with a clear bias. While the information is important, it should be taken in from a different source.Has Unequal Childhoods turned you off from other books in this genre?
Not at all.What about Xe Sands’s performance did you like?
She was very easy to understand, reads at a good pace, and has a nice voice to listen to.Meh
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