CBH Talk: Exploring “The White Bonus” with Tracie McMillan and Darrick Hamilton

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White Bonus is the money white people receive or save when racism works in their favor. In her new book, The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America, Tracie McMillan asks a pressing question: If racism denies people of color so much, just how much does it give to white people in literal dollars and cents? McMillan uses her own story and those of five others, to quantify the cash value of whiteness. In doing so, she explains the internal logic of white middle-class resentment in a way that vitally connects to the 2024 political landscape. Join her and economist Darrick Hamilton, one of the country’s leading experts on federal wealth redistribution, as they discuss difficult truths about racism’s direct and indirect gains for white Americans, and the corresponding losses for all.

[@gerrysharpe1958]

A good companion book. Black labor, white wealth, published 1994, Dr. Anderson's first book is a classic. It tracks slavery and Jim Crow public policies that used black labor to construct a superpower nation. It details how black people were socially engineered into the lowest level of a real life Monopoly game, which they are neither playing or winning. Black Labor is a comprehensive analysis of the issues of race. Dr. Anderson uses the anaylsis in this book to offer solutions to America's race problem.

[@citizencaitlin7240]

The wealth bonus is the bonus to have. That and health