COVID-19 and Childhood Inequality

Nazneen Khan is an associate professor of Sociology at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, USA. She is an active member of the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association and currently serves as the section’s Treasurer-Secretary. Her research and teaching employs intersectional theory and methodology and focuses on families, childhood, and motherhood at the crossroads of broader racial, economic, and political formations in the USA. Her recent scholarship has been published in Children & Society, Contexts, Sociological Focus, Critical Research on Religion, and Understanding and Dismantling Privilege.

Introduction: Unmasking Childhood Inequality Part 1: Unmasking Childhood Inequality 1. Pandemic Eugenics: Reproductive Justice and Racial Inequality in Childhood 2. LGBTQ+ Youth and the COVID-19 Pandemic 3. Turning a Blind Eye: COVID-19 and Homeless Children 4. The Impact of COVID-19 on Children with Thalassemia and Their Families in India Part 2: Unmasking Institutional Entanglements 5. Youth at the Margins: Continuity of Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic 6. Consequences of COVID-19 Realities and Misconceptions for Rural PK–12 Students: Implications from Rural Education Research 7. The Impact of Parental Burnout and Time with Children: Family Stress in a Large Urban City During COVID-19 Part 3: Unmasking Pandemic Agency 8. When Six Feet Feels Like Six Miles: Children’s Images of Their Lives During the COVID-19 Pandemic 9. The COVID-19 Pandemic: Childhood Inequalities Unmasked in the Caribbean 10. Risk-Taking Among Older Youth at the Outset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA