Rich Benjamin is an American cultural critic, anthropologist, and author. Benjamin is perhaps best known for the non-fiction book Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.[1][2][3] He is also a lecturer and a public intellectual, who has discussed issues on NPR, PBS, CNN and MSNBC.[4] His writing appears in The New York Times,[5] The New Yorker,[6] The Guardian[7] and the Los Angeles Times/[8]
Career
Benjamin's work focuses on US politics and culture, comparative world politics, money, class, Blacks, Whites, Latinos, public policy, global cultural transformation, and demographic change.[6][8]
Benjamin has been contributing essays to The New Yorker since 2017.[9]
He has presented a talk at a conference on decentralization.[10]
Benjamin's book was the subject of a TED Talk that has been viewed more than 2.8 million times.[11] The book has received coverage on NPR[12] and MSNBC.[13]
In 2021 Benjamin delivered the Poynter Lecture at Yale Law School on "conservatism and Trumpism in the era of digital media—on how right-wing ideology, white fear, and the digital media ecosystem threaten democracy in America."[14]
In 2021, he served as a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.[15]
Education
As a doctoral student at Stanford University, Benjamin studied with Professors Tim Lenoir and Terry Winograd, an adviser to the founders of Google.
References
- ^ James, Randy (October 12, 2009). "America's Booming White Enclaves". Time. Archived from the original on October 14, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
- ^ Poon, Linda (August 12, 2015). "A Black Man's Journey Through 'Whitopia'". CityLab.
- ^ "A Black Author's Journey Into American 'Whitopia'". NPR. October 6, 2009. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
- ^ Melber, Ari (January 15, 2018), Playing to the GOP Base?, retrieved January 9, 2019
- ^ Benjamin, Rich (2017), "The Ego in The Spectacle", The New York Times, retrieved August 15, 2019
- ^ a b Benjamin, Rich (April 4, 2018). "Gun Control and the Politics of White Paranoia". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ Benjamin, Rich (August 13, 2016). "Leading Writers on Donald Trump". The Guardian. Retrieved July 15, 2019.
- ^ a b Benjamin, Rich (July 19, 2019). "Op-Ed: Trump's race-baiting hasn't produced many policy wins, but that was never the point". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ The New Yorker (2022). "The New Yorker Contributors". The New Yorker.
- ^ New_Public (July 1, 2022). "Live from the Decentralized Web". New_Public.
- ^ "Rich Benjamin". TED.
- ^ NPR Radio Hour (November 20, 2015). "What is a Whitopia? And What Might It Mean to Live There?". NPR.org.
- ^ MSNBC News (January 15, 2018). "How Does Race Play to Trump's Base?". YouTube.
- ^ Yale University Law School (January 15, 2022). "Whiteness, Conservatism, and Democracy in the Digital Age, Rich Benjamin, Poynter Lecture".
- ^ New York Public Library (January 15, 2022). "Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, NYPL".
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