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author | essayist | speaker

Rich Benjamin is a political analyst, a cultural anthropologist, a speaker, an author.

His analysis appears regularly in The New York Times,The New Yorker, New York Review of Books,The Guardian, NPR, PBS, MSNBC, and CNN.  He is the author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, selected as an Editor’s Choice by Booklist and The American Library Association (2009).  The book is now in its second printing.

Rich was recently a Fellow in the literary arts at the Bellagio Center (Italia), Rockefeller Foundation. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the Authors Guild, the national union of writers that has been protecting authors’ rights and free speech since 1912.

He is at work on a new book.

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  • Whitopia

    How does a country thrive in the face of tectonic economic, political, and racial change?ORDER Whitopia
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