Race Among Friends

Marianne Modica

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Many saw the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a sign that America had moved past the issue of race, that a colorblind society was finally within reach... Lees meer

Learning the Hard Way

Edward W Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warn... Lees meer

Race Among Friends

Marianne Modica

• Hardcover | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Many saw the 2008 election of Barack Obama as a sign that America had moved past the issue of race, that a colorblind society was finally within reach... Lees meer

Disrupted Childhoods

Jane a Siegel

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Millions of children in the United States have a parent who is incarcerated and a growing number of these nurturers are mothers. Disrupted Childhoods ... Lees meer

Learning Race, Learning Place

Erin N Winkler

• Hardcover | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• In an American society both increasingly diverse and increasingly segregated, the signals children receive about race are more confusing than ever. In... Lees meer

Kids in the Middle

Vikki S Katz

• Hardcover | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Complicating the common view that immigrant incorporation is a top-down process, determined largely by parents, Vikki Katz explores how children activ... Lees meer

Between Self and Community

Junehui Ahn

• Hardcover | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Between Self and Community investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term e... Lees meer

Inventing Modern Adolescence

Sarah E Chinn

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• The 1960s are commonly considered to be the beginning of a distinct "teenage culture" in America. But did this highly visible era of free love and roc... Lees meer

We Fight To Win

Hava Rachel Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• In an adult-dominated society, teenagers are often shut out of participation in politics. We Fight to Win offers a compelling account of young people'... Lees meer

Complicated Lives

Vera Lopez

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Winner of the 2019 Intersectional Book Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women & Crime​ Complicated Lives focuses on the li... Lees meer

Children and Childhood in World Religions

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• While children figure prominently in religious traditions, few books have directly explored the complex relationships between children and religion. T... Lees meer

Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World

Laura Moran

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Children and youth are front and center in the context of global mass migration and the social discord around questions of multicultural inclusion tha... Lees meer

Girls in Trouble with the Law

Laurie Schaffner

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• In Girls in Trouble with the Law , sociologist Laurie Schaffner takes us inside juvenile detention centers and explores the worlds of the young women ... Lees meer

Defining Student Success

Lisa M Nunn

• Hardcover | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• 2020 Scholarly Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award from the ASA The key to success, our culture tells us, is a combination of talent and hard... Lees meer

City Kids

Maria Kromidas

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Cosmopolitanism-the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity-is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this ... Lees meer

Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States

Elzbieta M Gozdziak

• Hardcover | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Trafficked children are portrayed by the media--and even by child welfare specialists--as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor countr... Lees meer

Rethinking Childhood

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Being a child in American society can be problematic. Twenty percent of American children live in poverty, parents are divorcing at high rates, and ed... Lees meer

Life on the Malecón

Jon M Wolseth

• Hardcover | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Life on the Malecón is a narrative ethnography of the lives of street children and youth living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the non-gove... Lees meer

Designing Modern Childhoods

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• With the advent of urbanization in the early modern period, the material worlds of children were vastly altered. In industrialized democracies, a broa... Lees meer

You've Always Been There for Me

Rachel E Dunifon

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Today, approximately 1.6 million American children live in what social scientists call "grandfamilies"--households in which children are being raised ... Lees meer

Between Good and Ghetto

Nikki Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they m... Lees meer

Defining Student Success

Lisa M Nunn

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• 2020 Scholarly Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award from the ASA The key to success, our culture tells us, is a combination of talent and hard... Lees meer

Contesting Childhood

Kate Douglas

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• The late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed a surge in the publication and popularity of autobiographical writings about childhood. Linking literary and ... Lees meer

Life on the Malecón

Jon M Wolseth

• Paperback | Engels | Rutgers Childhood Studies
• Life on the Malecón is a narrative ethnography of the lives of street children and youth living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the non-gove... Lees meer