Margaret A. Hagerman > Quotes

“Most importantly, white parents can play an important role in challenging the perpetuation of racism and racial inequality in the United States only if they are willing to give up some of their own white racial power by rejecting the idea that their own child is more innocent and special and deserving than other people’s children are.”
― Margaret A. Hagerman, White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America

“parents of race- and class-privileged children are faced with a difficult paradox: in order to be a “good parent,” they must provide their children as many opportunities and advantages as possible; in order to be a “good citizen,” they must resist evoking structural privileges in ways that disadvantage others.”
― Margaret A. Hagerman, White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America