How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism

The sociologist Margaret Hagerman spent two years embedded in upper-middle-class white households, listening in on conversations about race

Joe Pinsker
Sep 4, 2018 · 8 min read
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When Margaret Hagerman was trying to recruit white affluent families as subjects for the research she was doing on race, one…

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