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Andrea Appelhans
April 9, 2009
MCOM 4260
Book Review
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
By, Annette Lareau
In the book, Unequal Childhoods, Annette Lareau conducted an in-depth qualitative study on twelve families from Richmond, Virginia. Lareau initially was interested in the relationships between child and parent and what obstacles are met and overcome through the course of the [...]

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In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India, Purnima Mankekar situates Indian television in a social commentary on the nature of the family, nationality, and identity in India. Mankekar specifically focuses her research on Doordarshan (state-run television) which is engaged in constant dialogue with its viewers in a [...]

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