Books

Fighting for the Future: The Politics of Socialization in a Diverse America

(with Allison Anoll and Mackenzie Israel-Trummel)

This in-progress book explores why people fight over how kids are raised in the United States. We argue that this follows from what we call the kids are the future folk wisdom. This perspective, in turn, makes child socialization political. We introduce this idea of politicized socialization in the case of race.

Read draft chapters:

• Chapter 1: Kids as Political Possibility
• Chapter 5: Political Purposes of Socialization
• Chapter 6: Racial Parenting During Political Disruption
• Chapter 8: Do Kids Pick It Up?