SOCIAL CLASS

Caplow, Theodore and Howard Bahr. Middletown Families: Fifty Years of Change and Continuity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982.

Freie, Carrie. Class Construction: White Working-Class Student Identity in the New Millenium.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007.

Kendall, Diane. Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America.  Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 2005.

Lynd, Robert and Helen Lynd.  Middletown: A Study in American Culture. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1929.

MacDonald, Michael Patrick.  All Souls: A Family from Southie.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.

Schinto, Jeanne.  Huddle Fever: Living in the Immigrant City.  New York: Random House, 1995.

Shulman, Beth. The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families. New York: The New Press, 2003.

Uchitelle, Louis. The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences. New York: Knopf, 2006.

RACE

Caldas, Stephen and Carl Bankston.  Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation.    Westport: Praeger, 2005.

Conley, Dalton. Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth and Social Policy in America.    Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish Became White.  New York: Routledge, 1995.

Lacey, Karyn. 2007. Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class and Status in the new Black Middle Class.  Berkeley: University of California Press.

Lareau, Annette. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Mauer, Marc. Race to Incarcerate. 2^nd Edition. New York: The New Press, 2006.

McDermott, Monica. Working Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Pattillo-McCoy, Mary.  Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Venkatesh, Sudhir.  American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Venkatesh, Sudhir. Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Waters, Mary C. Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.

GENDER

Bianchi, Suzanne, John Robinson and Melissa Milkie. Changing Rhythms of American Family Life. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2006.

Brumberg, Joan. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.

DeVault, Marjorie.  Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Eden, Kathryn and Mary Kefales.  Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Gimlin, Debra. Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Hertz, Rosanna. Single by Chance; Mothers by Choice: How Women are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Hochschild, Arlie.  The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. New York: Viking, 1989.

Ingraham, Chrys. White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture.  New York: Routledge, 1999.

Jacobs, Jerry and Kathleen Gerson.  The Time Divide: Work, Family and Gender Inequality.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Loy, Mary Blair. Competing Devotions: Career and Family Among Women Executives. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Newman, Katherine. Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market.  New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006.

Owen, Barbara.  In the Mix: Struggle and Survival in a Woman's Prison.  Albany, SUNY Press, 1998.

Thorne, Barrie. Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Townsend, Nicolas W. The Package Deal: Marriage, Work and Fatherhood in Men's Lives.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.