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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- TRANSACTION INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I FAMILY STORIES AND THE FAMILY -- CHAPTER 1 FAMILY GROUND RULES -- CHAPTER 2 FAMILY DEFINITIONS -- CHAPTER 3 FAMILY MONUMENTS -- CHAPTER 4 UNDERGROUND RULES -- CHAPTER 5 FAMILY MYTHS -- PART II FAMILY STORIES AND THE WORLD -- CHAPTER 6 THE PECKING ORDER AND HOW TO SURVIVE IT -- CHAPTER 7 OF MONEY, SELF-WORTH, AND LOST FORTUNES -- PART III FAMILY STORIES AND THE INDIVIDUAL -- CHAPTER 8 LEGACIES -- CHAPTER 9 FAIRY GODMOTHERS AND PATRON SAINTS -- CHAPTER 10 IN PURSUIT OF FREEDOM -- NOTES

Abstract
Self-directed exploration in childhood appears driven by a desire to resolve uncertainties in order to learn more about the world. However, in adult decision-making, the choice to explore new information rather than exploit what is already known takes many factors beyond uncertainty (such as expected utilities and costs) into account. The evidence for whether young children are sensitive to complex, contextual factors in making exploration decisions is limited and mixed. Here, we investigate whether modifying uncertain options influences explore-exploit behavior in preschool-aged children (48–68 months). Over the course of three experiments, we manipulate uncertain options' ambiguity, expected value, and potential to improve epistemic state for future exploration in a novel forced-choice design. We find evidence that young children are influenced by each of these factors, suggesting that early, self-directed exploration involves sophisticated, context-sensitive decision-making under uncertainty.

The current immigration enforcement regime embodies a colorblind racial project of the state rooted in the racial structure of society and resulting in racism toward immigrants. Approaching racism from structural and social process perspectives, we seek to understand the social consequences of enforcement practices in the lives of undocumented immigrant young adults who moved to the United States as minors. Findings indicate that although legal discourse regarding immigration enforcement theoretically purports colorblindness, racial practices such as profiling subject immigrants to arrest, detention, and deportation and, in effect, criminalize them. Further, enforcement practices produce distress, vulnerability, and anxiety in the lives of young immigrants and their families, often resulting in legitimate fears of detention and deportation since enforcement measures disproportionately affect Latinos and other racialized immigrant groups in U.S. society. We conclude that policies and programs that exclude, segregate, detain, and physically remove immigrants from the country reproduce racial inequalities in other areas of social life through spillover effects that result in dire consequences for these immigrants and their kin. We argue that immigrant enforcement practices reflect the nation's racial policy of our times.

ObjectiveWe evaluate the effect of pre‐Katrina housing tenure and postdisaster financial resources on the odds of housing displacement after Hurricane Katrina for a sample of low‐income African‐American mothers.MethodsUsing longitudinal data from a sample of low‐income African‐American mothers with pre‐Katrina measures of housing tenure and individual characteristics and post‐Katrina indicators of disaster impacts, we estimate a multinomial logistic regression model predicting post‐Katrina housing outcomes.ResultsAmong low‐income African‐American mothers, homeowners' odds of being in their pre‐Katrina home rather than a new home are greater than those of renters, while renters' odds of being in a pre‐Katrina home are greater than those of subsidized housing residents, ceteris paribus. The difference in homeowners' and renters' odds is reduced to insignificance when access to private insurance is added to the model, although the difference for subsidized housing residents remains.ConclusionHomeownership and disaster assistance protect against housing displacement. Renters, especially those in subsidized housing, were more vulnerable to housing loss after this disaster.