{"product_id":"the-white-bonus-five-families-and-the-cash-value-of-racism-in-america-tracie-mcmillan","title":"The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America;  Tracie McMillan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe White Bonus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eworth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—not in amorphous privilege, but in dollars and cents?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor readers of Robin DiAngelo’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Fragility\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Heather McGhee’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sum of Us,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMcMillan brings groundbreaking insight on the white working class. And for readers of Tara Westover’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEducated\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Kiese Laymon’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeavy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, McMillan reckons intimately with the connection between the abuse we endure at home and the abuse America allows in public.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApril 23, 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA transplant from rural Michigan, Brooklyn-based writer Tracie McMillan is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table. Mixing immersive reporting, undercover investigative techniques and “moving first-person narrative” (Wall Street Journal), McMillan’s book argues for thinking of fresh, healthy food as a public and social good—a stance that inspired The New York Times to call her “a voice the food world needs” and Rush Limbaugh to single her out as an “overeducated” “authorette” and “threat to liberty.” In 2012, Whole Living magazine named her a \"Food Visionary,\" building on her numerous appearances on radio and television programs, which range from the liberal The Rachel Maddow Show to the “tea-party favorite” Peter Schiff Show. She has written about food and class for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Saveur, and Slate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMcMillan moved into writing about food after a successful stint as a poverty and welfare reporter while working as the managing editor of the award-winning magazine City Limits in New York City. While there, she won recognition from organizations ranging from the James Beard Foundation to World Hunger Year. In 2013, she was named a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan, a year after she was named a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism. In 2023, she began editing coverage of worker organizing for the award-winning news site, Capital \u0026amp; Main.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50602459070786,"sku":"","price":12.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/whitebonus.jpg?v=1747337297","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/the-white-bonus-five-families-and-the-cash-value-of-racism-in-america-tracie-mcmillan","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}