Professor Lareau is the author of the prize-winning book Unequal Childhood: Race, Class, and Family Life [see cover]. This ethnographic study, conducted in the early 1990s, examines how middle class, working class, and poor white and black families manage the extracurricular activities of their children, and thus contribute to the reproduction of class and racial inequality. She is in the process of re-interviewing the families and will discuss where the children are heading, now that they are approaching age twenty.

Participants may read Professor Lareau's papers "Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and White Families" and (with Elliot Weininger) "Conformity and Self-Direction in the Daily Life of Children: An Ethnographic Extension of Kohn."

Professor Lareau's CV is also available.