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Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identities in High School $14.37 What does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question and revealing the everyday social processes by which high schoolers define white identities, Pamela Perry offers much-needed insights into the social construction of race and whiteness among youth. Through ethnographic research and in-depth interviews of students in two demographi…

Finding a Preschool for Your Child in San Francisco & Marin $3.94 A consistent best-seller for more than a decade, and now in its third edition, this book helps parents make the first important step in their child’s formal education. Preschools, both public and private, are profiled in terms of school philosophy, goals and curriculum, admission procedures, staff qualifications, fees, hours, extended care and vacation schedules, number of students and more. Many…

Manufacturing Hope and Despair : The School and Kin Support Networks of U.S.-Mexican Youth (Sociology of Education Series, No. 9) $20.76 Relying on ethnographic and statistical data, this volume documents the many constraints and social forces that prevent Mexican-origin adolescents from constructing social networks, and thus social support. The role of social networks in shaping young people’s chances is illuminated….