{"product_id":"the-white-bonus-five-families-and-the-cash-value-of-racism-in-america-hardcover","title":"The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTracie McMillan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA genre-bending work of journalism and memoir by award-winning writer Tracie McMillan tallies the cash benefit--and cost--of racism in America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe White Bonus\u003c\/i\u003e, McMillan asks a provocative question about racism in America: When people of color are denied so much, what are white people given? And how much is it \u003ci\u003eworth\u003c\/i\u003e--not in amorphous privilege, but in dollars and cents? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMcMillan begins with three generations of her family, tracking their modest wealth to its roots: American policy that helped whites first. Simultaneously, she details the complexities of their advantage, exploring her mother's death in a nursing home, at 44, on Medicaid; her family's implosion; and a small inheritance from a banker grandfather. In the process, McMillan puts a cash value to whiteness in her life and assesses its worth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMcMillan then expands her investigation to four other white subjects of different generations across the U.S. Alternating between these subjects and her family, McMillan shows how, and to what degree, racial privilege begets material advantage across class, time, and place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers of Robin DiAngelo's \u003ci\u003eWhite Fragility\u003c\/i\u003e and Heather McGhee's \u003ci\u003eThe Sum of Us, \u003c\/i\u003eMcMillan brings groundbreaking insight on the white working class. And for readers of Tara Westover's \u003ci\u003eEducated\u003c\/i\u003e and Kiese Laymon's \u003ci\u003eHeavy\u003c\/i\u003e, McMillan reckons intimately with the connection between the abuse we endure at home and the abuse America allows in public.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised in rural Michigan, Detroit- and Brooklyn-based writer \u003cb\u003eTracie McMillan\u003c\/b\u003e has written for publications including the\u003ci\u003e New York Times; Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e. After putting herself through New York University and training under legendary reporter Wayne Barrett, she was the managing editor of the award-winning magazine \u003ci\u003eCity Limits \u003c\/i\u003efrom 2001 to 2005. A one-time target of Rush Limbaugh and a 2012-13 Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow, McMillan is also the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eThe American Way of Eating \u003c\/i\u003e(Scribner, 2012). McMillan's work has been recognized by the Sidney Hillman Book Prize, the James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards, and Investigative Reporters and Editors, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.49 x 9.48 x 6.62 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699799396448,"sku":"9781250619426","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-white-bonus-five-families-and-the-cash-value-of-racism-in-america-hardcover","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}