Tracie McMillan

Sep 25, 2024 | citybeat.com | Tracie McMillan

JD Vance, the Ohio senator and Republican candidate for vice president, does not talk much about being white. Yet an analysis of public records indicates that more than $20 million has flowed to the self-styled "hillbilly" from policies and practices that fuel white advantage. As I describe in my book, The White Bonus, combining social science and history with life story can offer a powerful - if rough - tally of the dollar value of white privilege for an individual American.

Aug 29, 2024 | thecut.com | Tracie McMillan

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photo: Tracie McMillan My dad disowned me last July. The news came in the mail. In a blocky script made wobbly with age — he’s 77 — my dad spent the first half-page of his letter listing flaws he’d seen in me since my birth: a tendency toward being a “drama queen,” evidenced by the tantrums I threw while learning to walk. A “problem with the truth,” exhibited when I lied about making a mess at the dinner table.

Aug 29, 2024 | flipboard.com | Tracie McMillan

Oakland County16 hours agoOakland County probate judge removed from bench, accused of ‘unprofessional conduct’theoaklandpress.com - Aileen Wingblad • 16hOakland County’s Chief Probate Pro Tem Judge Kathleen Ryan has been removed from the bench indefinitely due to allegations of “unprofessional …Bankruptcy21 hours agoStruggling gas station chain files for Chapter 11 bankruptcyTheStreet - Kirk O’Neil • 21hThe new owners of a service station chain have filed bankruptcy to reorganize its debts.

Aug 18, 2024 | yahoo.com | Tracie McMillan

You’d think my parents would have told me we fled integration. Instead, they said: We moved because of the schools. My family runs four generations deep here in southeastern Michigan: Pontiac and Waterford, Ann Arbor and Detroit, Rose Township and White Lake. My great-grandparents were Ozark migrants and small-town laborers — or their wives — all of them flocking to industrial towns from Pontiac to Sault Sainte Marie.

May 13, 2024 | znetwork.org | Tracie McMillan

The existence of white privilege, the idea that unseen, unconscious advantages afforded to white people shapes systemic injustice, has been hotly contested since the term was popularized by women’s studies scholar Peggy McIntosh in 1988. Many working class and poor whites have questioned how they could possibly experience privilege while living through things like food insecurity, lack of medical care or stable housing, and low quality schools.