MSU sociology faculty鈥檚 new books explore challenges, opportunities for addressing hunger, gender, race issues
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擣ood insecurity, gender inequality in professional sport, and children鈥檚 racial perception in America are the respective focus areas of three highly anticipated works by faculty members in 亚洲色吧视频鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences.
Due for September publication by Vanderbilt University Press, 鈥淔ood and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty among America鈥檚 Poor鈥 is a 246-page book that discusses the impact of food insecurity on food pantries and federal nutrition programs.
Leslie Hossfeld, professor and head of MSU鈥檚 Department of Sociology, is one of the book鈥檚 three editors who also collaborated on the University of North Carolina Wilmington鈥檚 鈥淧ersistent Poverty in the South Project.鈥 At MSU, Hossfeld also directs the Mississippi Food Insecurity Project, which examines food access and food insecurity in the Magnolia State.
Also available in September is MSU Assistant Professor of Sociology Rachel Allison鈥檚 book, 鈥淜icking Center: Gender and The Selling of Women鈥檚 Professional Soccer.鈥 Published by Rutgers University Press, the 200-page work poses and analyzes the challenges and opportunities for a women鈥檚 soccer league breaking into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport.
MSU Assistant Professor of Sociology Margaret A. Hagerman鈥檚 鈥淲hite Kids: Growing Up With Privilege in a Racially Divided America,鈥 is a 280-page, research-based book that will be published by New York University Press in September. Over a two-year period, Hagerman conducted in-depth interviews with affluent white children and their families to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities and police violence. Based on these dialogues, Hagerman provides a fascinating, detailed examination of the role that children and families play in the reproduction of racism and racial inequality in America.
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