Margaret A. Hagerman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mississippi State University and is a Faculty Affiliate in both the African American Studies and Gender Studies programs. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University in 2014. Her qualitative research focuses on the study of racial socialization, or how kids learn about race, racism, inequality, and privilege. Hagerman's book, White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (2018 NYU Press) explores how white children learn about race in the context of their everyday lives.
Experience
2012–present
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Mississippi State University
Education
2012
Emory University, Ph.D.
2006
Lehigh University, M.A.
2000
Lehigh University, B.A.
Publications
2018
White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America, NYU Press
2017
White Racial Socialization: Progressive Fathers on Raising ‘Antiracist’ Children, Journal of Marriage and Family
2017
“‘The Celebrity Thing’: Using Photographs of Celebrities in Child-Centered, Ethnographic Interviews with White Kids about Race, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth
2017
Race Scholarship ‘With, By, and For’ Children: How Critical Youth Studies Can Inform Research on Race, Sociology Compass
2016
Using Ethnography and Interviews to Study Color-blind Racial Ideology, The Myth of Racial Color Blindness: Manifestations, Dynamics, and Impact
2016
Reproducing and Reworking Colorblind Racial Ideology: Acknowledging Children’s Agency in the White Habitus, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
2014
Ignorance and Outrage: White Families (Don’t) Talk About Race, Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice: Writing Wrong
2014
White Families and Race: Colour-blind and Colour-conscious Approaches to White Racial Socialization, Ethnic and Racial Studies
2010
I Like Being Intervieeeeeeewed!’: Children’s Perspectives on Participating in Social Research, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth