Margaret A. Hagerman, Ph.D.
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My research explores how children and youth learn about racism, racial inequality, and racial privilege in their everyday lives. I study the key mechanisms of how children “learn race” and what role key institutions like family, school, and place play in this process. I explore how aspects of children’s social environments—from neighborhoods to schools to geographic regions to the larger political landscape—shape how and what they learn about race and racism in America.
Through listening to the voices of children and youth, my research also illustrates what young people today think about race and racism in America—as well as how children interpret and understand current events, contemporary controversies, and societal divides. I am currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mississippi State University and a Faculty Affiliate in the African American Studies Program and the Gender Studies Program. My book, White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (NYU Press) is now available in paperback and as an audiobook. 
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