The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America
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Book Overview
A genre-breaking work of journalism and memoir that tallies the cash benefit--and cost-- of racism in America
This unflinching book from award-winning investigative reporter Tracie McMillan examines what white privilege delivers--in dollars and cents--not only to white people of wealth but also to white people from the poor to the middle class. McMillan begins with her own downwardly mobile middle-class family and takes us through a personal history marked with abuse, illness, and poverty, while training her journalistic eye on the benefits she saw from being white. McMillan then alternates her story with profiles of four other white subjects, millennials to baby boomers, from across the United States. For readers of Stephanie Land's Maid, Heather McGhee's The Sum of Us, and Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed, McMillan brings groundbreaking insight into how, and to what degree, white racial privilege builds material advantage across class, time, and place. Rather than analyzing racism as a thing that gives less to people of color, McMillan studies how it gives more to people who are white--including, with uncommon honesty, herself--and how it takes so much from so many. The unforgettable follow-up question thrums steadily through this book: Do white Americans believe that racism is worth what it costs all of us?Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1250619424
ISBN13:9781250619426
Release Date:April 2024
Publisher:Henry Holt & Company
Length:464 Pages
Weight:3.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.6" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
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Glossary was 1/4 of the book,
Published by Mimic , 2 months ago
While she did make fairly good points, most of those points were the findings and observations of other writers. Most of her examples were pretty weak given the nature of the subject. Almost like she was afraid of offending anyone. The white saviorism was prevalent as well. All in all a half hearted effort to seem "down with the struggle" while perpetuating the exact unsubstantiated exceptionalism and disassociation she was writing/almost plagiarizing. I think without even realizing, which makes it worse. She literally ends the book boasting about how she capitalized on minorities being kicked out of their homes to generate six figures. Heres a breif summery "Lol if I was white I would have never been able to do white things, and get white bonuses" vaguely reference historical event "and my grandpa was a racist, and his grandpa too" vaguely reference historical event "boy am I glad to be white" vaguely reference historical event "I know it's not fair, I could tell you how or why it is that way but...to busy telling you about my white saviorism, i struggled too ya know, kinda sorta, i mean relative to the rich whites"
Absolutely no substance...
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