The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America

A genre-bending work of journalism and memoir by award-winning writer Tracie McMillan tallies the cash benefit—and cost—of racism in America.

In The White Bonus, McMillan asks a provocative question a…

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