Families

Shirley A. Hill is a professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, where she studies family diver-sity, social inequality, and health care. She is the author of Race, Work, and Family: New Century Values Among African American Men and Women (co-edited with Marlese Durr; Rowman & Littlefield, (c)2006); Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships (AltaMira, (c)2005); African American Children: Their Socialization and Development in Families (SAGE, (c)1999); and other books and articles. Her current research focuses on racial disparities in educational attainment.

Series Preface: Contemporary Family Perspectives Author Preface Introduction: Family Studies and Social Inequalities 1. The Evolution of Families and Marriages 2. Theorizing Social Inequalities 3. Elite and Upper-Class Families 4. Middle-Class Families: Stability and Change 5. Economically-Marginal Families: Living on the Edge 6. Families in Global Economic Context Bibliography Index About the Author