The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America
by: Tracie McMillan (Author)
Publisher:Henry Holt & Company Inc
Publication Date: 28 May 2024
Language:English
Print Length:464 pages
ISBN-10:1250619424
ISBN-13:9781250619426
Book Description
When we talk about racism in America, we usually talk about what’s been denied to people of colour. But what if we started measuring what white people get? In The White Bonus, McMillan examines the monetary value of whiteness in this country through her own experiences and a broader societal examination. McMillan had a turbulent and difficult upbringing, and her early adulthood was marked by real hunger and struggle, but she was able to get by and move up. When her reporter’s curiosity prompted her to measure her white privilege in her experience of upward mobility, she realised she needed to look at not only social advantages, but also money. The White Bonus follows three generations of McMillan’s family, tracing the sources of their wealth. That personal narrative tethers a wider investigation into the laws and norms that give white Americans more opportunity than minorities. Measuring their cumulative material effect on her life, McMillan also expands the investigation beyond her own family, alternating her story with profiles of five other subjects of various classes and places, taking a look at their respective white bonuses. McMillan showcases an ecosystem of institutions and practices that are supposed to treat all Americans the same but usually only benefit white people. For readers of Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law, and Stephanie Land’s Maid, The White Bonus will address the white working-class experience as it relates to race, quantifying the amorphous problem of racial privilege and investigating what we can do about it.
About the Author
Review "The White Bonus buckles and snaps everything I thought I knew about race, space, place and bookmaking. This is what courage and absolute genius produce. We have never needed a book more than we need Tracie McMillan's The White Bonus."--Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy"A painful, calm, and clear-eyed excavation of white complicity, The White Bonus is stunning in scope. McMillan will make you re-examine everything you thought you knew about American health and wealth."--Beth Macy, New York Times bestselling author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus"Finding hidden systems that enrich a few at the expense of the many is Tracie McMillan's superpower. Armed with an ethnographer's sensitivity, a journalist's instinct, a scholar's capacity to see the value of both forests and trees, and a poet's gift for turning words into feelings, she combines deep investigative research with personal stories to reveal that "whiteness" is America's most lucrative fiction, the intangible asset that keeps on giving--and taking. The point of the book is not just to interpret the "white bonus" but to end it."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"The White Bonus is a remarkable book from a peculiar gaze. McMillan's compulsively readable mix of memoir, policy and journalism shines a spotlight and collective responsibility on modern American inequality: indelibly racialized and crosshatched by economic class. A must-read for anyone seeking to better understand race, class, or both."--Darrick Hamilton, Founding Director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, The New School"This searing book, hard to put down, confronts difficult truths about racism's direct and indirect gains for white Americans and losses for all. With often painful human detail, The White Bonus sharply explains how public policies and private actions regarding housing, schooling, crime, and health care, each inflected by race, affect personal prospects and collective outcomes."--Ira Katznelson, award-winning author of When Affirmative Action Was White"The White Bonus is an invaluable resource for understanding racism in terms of systems, rather than just attitudes. McMillan looks unflinchingly at the benefits and costs of racism through the lens of her own family's gains and losses. A reporter at heart, she digs through the archives of both personal trauma and personal finance to show how every story in the U.S. is actually a story about race." --Lewis Raven Wallace, Abolition Journalism Fellow, Interrupting Criminalization and host and author, The View From Somewhere"The White Bonus is an unusually daring book that explores how racism has given unfair advantages to white Americans as we all pursue the American dream. Tracie McMillan profiles a range of Americans to show how their "white bonus" results in advantages that can total hundreds of thousands of dollars. This original, compelling work investigates an undeniable inequity that America has too long ignored."--Steven Greenhouse, journalist and author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor"The White Bonus confronts head-on the widespread myth that white Americans will lose nothing if the nation finally ends anti-Black racism. By translating complex scholarship into layperson's terms, this powerful work forces us to recognize the difficulties in reaching a point where most white Americans will support, actively, racial equity in the United States."--William Darity, Jr., Duke University"In this eye-opening examination into the tangible and intangible advantages of being born white in America, McMillan uses her own family's story and those of everyday white Americans to quantify the cash value of whiteness. An important contribution."--Heather McGhee, New York Times bestselling author, The Sum of Us"In a style reminiscent of Barbara Ehrenreich, McMillan offers a powerful and necessary exposé of the financial benefits of whiteness in the U.S... Each case study is supported by extensive interviews and reporting, and presented with novelistic detail in a propulsive narrative."--BookPage (starred review)"Intimate and eye-opening... [A] compassionate invitation to white readers to hear, and reckon with, the story of race in America as deeply personal."--Publishers Weekly"[A] fresh, urgent new look at the mechanisms of racism in America."--Booklist
About the Author Raised in rural Michigan, Detroit- and Brooklyn-based writer Tracie McMillan has written for publications including the New York Times; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times; Mother Jones; Harper’s Magazine; Slate; and National Geographic. After putting herself through New York University and training under legendary reporter Wayne Barrett, she was the managing editor of the award-winning magazine City Limits from 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 The American Way of Eating (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.
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