Interviews

Author Tracie McMillan joins me to break down just how much racism has benefitted white Americans for decades.  “”We made massive investments in white communities and families and that created the kind of stability a lot of white families still enjoy and we ought to be doing that for everybody”@TMMcMillan shares how she hopes her … Read more

Venessa Wong for MarketWatch Tracie McMillan grew up in Michigan “on the border of the working and middle class.” Little about her upbringing suggests financial privilege: Her mother became ill when she was 5 years old, and her family worried constantly about medical debt. McMillan has worked since age 14 and supported herself financially since … Read more

Read the original source. By Venessa Wong Journalist Tracie McMillan says she ‘understood enough about the world to know that I’m getting something for being white’ — even if she, too, struggled financially. The Value Gap is a MarketWatch interview series about confronting inequality that features business leaders, academics, policy makers and activists. Tracie McMillan grew … Read more

Read the original source. Racism is a major contributor to economic disparities in the U.S. – but in her new book, The White Bonus, writer Tracie McMillan crunches the numbers to understand just how much money white privilege can mean. In today’s episode, she speaks with NPR’s Michel Martin about the different families she profiled, the … Read more

Read the original source. By Jeff Piechowski FLINT, Michigan — Journalist Tracie McMillan, who was raised in Holly and authored the 2012 New York Times bestseller, ‘The American Way of Eating,’ is promoting her latest book, ‘The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America.’ In it, McMillan examines how her family and four others … Read more

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By attempting to put a cash value on how white Americans, including her own family, benefit from discrimination, Tracie McMillan hopes to inspire a conversation on how racism drives notions of who deserves to live well. Read the original source. By Cerise Castle The existence of white privilege, the idea that unseen, unconscious advantages afforded to … Read more

The Karen Hunter Show on Siriux XM Radio, May 14, 2014 “The @karenhunter show welcomes Author of “The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America” : Tracy McMilan! https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250619426/thewhitebonus…@TMMcMillan#KarenRebels“ Via Sirius XM Urban View, @UrbanViewRadio on Twitter

‘I didn’t understand how racism was helping me.’ Read the original source. By Matt Haber While writing The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America, journalist Tracie McMillan sought to quantify the benefits of being born white in a country where racism has always persisted in one form or another. As … Read more

Author and journalist Tracie McMillan joined the show to discuss a tangible way for white America to confront the advantage that keeps our nation unequal. Listen on WDET.org White privilege begins with the idea that white Americans have inherent advantage in society because of racist policies and practices throughout history. But how does someone measure … Read more