Description: A genre-bending work of journalism and memoir by award-winning writer Tracie McMillan tallies the cash benefit—and cost—of racism in America.
Tracie McMillan
A working-class transplant from rural Michigan, Brooklyn—and Detroit—based writer Tracie McMillan has been covering America’s multiracial working class since the late 1990s.
In 2012, she published her New York Times bestseller, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table . That work mixes immersive reporting, undercover investigative techniques and “moving first-person narrative” ( Wall Street Journal ), and argues for thinking of fresh, healthy food as a public and social good—a stance that inspired The New York Times to call her “ a voice the food world needs ” and Rush Limbaugh to single her out as an “overeducated” “