Madysen Luebke Micah Walker, Bridge Detroit Hey, readers! Welcome back to Culture Canvas. Detroit’s biggest event of the year, the NFL Draft, is only two days away. Whether you’re a diehard football fan, or someone who doesn’t care about sports, like myself, both groups will surely pack downtown for the three-day event. Below, I have a list … Read more
By Micah Walker, Bridge Detroit In 2016, Tracie McMillan wrote an essay for The New York Times reacting to the news that Donald Trump would become the next president of the United States. Titled, “White Resentment on the Night Shift at Walmart,” the piece referenced the journalist’s stint working undercover at a rural Michigan location of the … Read more
By Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub Ah, another Tuesday in April, a month (apparently) of earthquakes and eclipses, thunderstorms and thunderous yells about filing taxes. (Or was that just me?) Whatever the month in 2024 may mean to you, this particular Tuesday signifies something special: a host of new books to check out. You’ll find novel work from … Read more
Read original source. By MITCHELL GOODBAR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM A Brooklyn-based journalist calculated exactly how much racism and white privilege has financially benefited her down to the last cent – coming in at a whopping $371,000. In her new book, ‘The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism,’ author Tracie McMillan claims that being … Read more
by Daniel Johnson, Black Enterprise McMillan’s new book, “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America,” traces how white people have been helped and harmed by the policies that punish Black people. Tracie McMillan’s new book, The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America, out now, traces … Read more
The Daily Kos Here’s this week’s choices for featured nonfiction, culled from the hundreds of books published this week. Something for everyone! The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America, by Tracie McMillan. This book asks a provocative question about racism in America: When people of color are denied so … Read more
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry Often when white people consider racism, we look almost exclusively at what it costs people of color. We rarely consider the other side–what that racism gives us in unearned benefits, and how that benefit hurts us as a culture. In her new book The White Bonus: Five Families and the … Read more
By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Exactly how much has racism benefited White Americans? Journalist and author Tracie McMillan did the math: The advantages she’s gotten over her life from being White, she estimates, amount to $371,934.30. To calculate that number, McMillan tallied those benefits and divided them into two categories: A family bonus, which includes money her … Read more
Factually! with Adam Conover When we talk about racism in America, we tend to focus on the harm inflicted upon people of color, while rarely focusing on the ways that white people indirectly benefit from a racist culture. Author Tracie McMillan explores this concept of The White Bonus in her latest book, exploring the tangible … Read more
Author and journalist, Tracie McMillan joins Emily to discuss her new book, The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America. 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 … Read more
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