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These required books are available at the Vassar bookstore and in the library under the 4-hour reserve list for this course:
  Lareau, Annette. 2011. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2014. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. 4th ed. Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield.
  Ansari, Aziz and Eric Klinenberg. 2015. Modern Romance: An Investigation. New York: Penguin.
  Dhingra, Pawan. 2012. Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
These recommended books are available in the Sociology Department's permanent reserve list of books for Sociology 151. They provide useful historical context and theoretical elaboration for the ideas we discuss in class. If you feel unsure of your grasp of the course materials, be sure to look at the chapters I have recommended in the course schedule.
  Collins, Randall and Michael Makowsky. The Discovery of Society (McGraw-Hill, any edition).
  Anthony Giddens, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1971).
All other readings can be found on Moodle.

 

 

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