The white bonus : five families and the cash value of racism in America / Tracie McMillan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMillan, Tracie, author.

Contributor:

Tom Monahan Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White privilege (Social structure)--United States.

White privilege (Social structure).

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

McMillan, Tracie--Family.

McMillan, Tracie.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Families.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xiv, 444 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Five families and the cash value of racism in America

5 families and the cash value of racism in America

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024.

Summary:

"In The White Bonus, Tracie 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 worth--not in amorphous privilege, but in dollars and cents? McMillan 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. McMillan 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

My grandparents

Katrina Rectenwald : work

My parents' childhoods

Lindsey and Maryann Becker : school

My parents as parents

Jared Bunde : crime

My childhood

Barbara Nathan Katz : poverty

My young adulthood

My adulthood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Monahan Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: McMillan, Tracie. White bonus

ISBN:

9781250619426

1250619424

OCLC:

1375544322

Publisher Number:

99996279292