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SUMMARY:Is there a white bonus? Investigating class\, race\, and Oakland County's American Dream
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with RHPL and OU Center for Public Humanities \n\n\n\nJournalist and Holly native Tracie McMillan will discuss her groundbreaking work in the 2024 book\, The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America (Henry Holt & Co.). In this work described by renowned author Kiese Laymon as "courage and absolute genius\," McMillan's stunning hybrid of memoir and journalism alternates between her own struggling middle-class family in Michigan and four other white families across generations and across the country.\nDriven by personal history marked with abuse\, illness\, and poverty\, McMillan asks for real what has being white ever gotten me?\n\nTo answer it\, McMillan goes beyond hollow discussions of "privilege." She seeks out whether her family in Oakland County and Ann Arbor benefited from public aid targeted to white families alone\, and asks how much it was worth. With that knowledge in hand\, she studies what America's steady loss of a safety net in the form of education\, housing\, and health care most people can afford has cost her\, too.\n Presented with support from the Judd Family Endowed Fund.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<span style="font-size:18px\;"><span style="font-family:tahoma\;">Presented in partnership with RHPL and OU Center for Public Humanities&nbsp\;<br />\n<br />\nJournalist&mdash\;and Holly native&mdash\;Tracie McMillan will discuss her groundbreaking work in the 2024 book\, The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America (Henry Holt &amp\; Co.). In this work described by renowned author Kiese Laymon as &quot\;courage and absolute genius\,&quot\; McMillan&#39\;s stunning hybrid of memoir and journalism alternates between her own struggling middle-class family in Michigan and four other white families across generations&mdash\;and across the country.</span></span>\n<p><span style="font-size:18px\;"><span style="font-family:tahoma\;">Driven by personal history marked with abuse\, illness\, and poverty\, McMillan asks&mdash\;for real&mdash\;what has being white ever gotten me?</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span style="font-size:18px\;"><span style="font-family:tahoma\;">To answer it\, McMillan goes beyond hollow discussions of &quot\;privilege.&quot\; She seeks out whether her family in Oakland County and Ann Arbor benefited from public aid targeted to white families alone\, and asks how much it was worth. With that knowledge in hand\, she studies what America&#39\;s steady loss of a safety net&mdash\;in the form of education\, housing\, and health care most people can afford&mdash\;has cost her\, too.</span></span></p>\n<span style="font-size:18px\;"><span style="font-family:tahoma\;"> Presented with support from the Judd Family Endowed Fund.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;
LOCATION:Oakland University Kresge Library 242 Kresge Library
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DTSTAMP:20260516T215436Z
URL:https://business.rrc-mi.com/events/details/is-there-a-white-bonus-investigating-class-race-and-oakland-county-s-american-dream-50497
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