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THE WHITE BONUS, FIVE FAMILIES AND THE CASH VALUE OF RACISM IN AMERICA, Tracie McMillan

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THE WHITE BONUS, FIVE FAMILIES AND THE CASH VALUE OF RACISM IN AMERICA, Tracie McMillan

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

THE WHITE BONUS

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bibliography

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Tracie McMillan

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FIVE FAMILIES AND THE CASH VALUE OF RACISM IN AMERICA

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 beginswith 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

Table Of 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 : safety net -- My young adulthood -- My adulthood

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Five families and the cash value of racism in America

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