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Brown, Dorothy A.
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Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Taxation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Blacks -- Taxation.
Blacks -- Economic conditions.
Racism -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Tax incidence -- United States.
Fiscal policy -- United States.
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Brown, Dorothy A.
Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Taxation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Blacks -- Taxation.
Blacks -- Economic conditions.
Racism -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Tax incidence -- United States.
Fiscal policy -- United States.
MARC Display
The
whiteness
of
wealth
:
how
the
tax
system
impoverishes
Black
Americans
and
how
we
can
fix
it / Dorothy A. Brown.
by
Brown, Dorothy A.
Crown, 2021.
Call #:
343.7304089 B877w
Subjects
Taxation -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Taxation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Blacks -- Taxation.
Blacks -- Economic conditions.
Racism -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Tax
incidence -- United States.
Fiscal policy -- United States.
ISBN:
9780525577324 (hc.)
Description:
279 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Married while
black
--
Black
house, white market -- College as the great un-equalizer -- The best jobs -- Legacy -- What's next.
Summary:
"A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation
system
from a law professor and expert on
tax
policy. Dorothy A. Brown became a
tax
lawyer to get away from race. As a young
black
girl growing up in the South Bronx, she'd seen
how
racism limited the lives of her family and neighbors. Her law school classes offered a refreshing contrast:
Tax
law was about numbers, and the only color that mattered was green. But when Brown sat down to prepare
tax
returns for her parents, she found something strange: James and Dottie Brown, a plumber and a nurse, seemed to be paying an unusually high percentage of their income in taxes. When Brown became a law professor, she set out to understand why. In The
Whiteness
of
Wealth
, Brown draws on decades of cross-disciplinary research to show that
tax
law isn't as color-blind as she'd once believed. She takes us into her adopted city of Atlanta, introducing us to families across the economic spectrum whose stories demonstrate
how
American
tax
law rewards the preferences and practices of white people while pushing
black
people further behind. From attending college to getting married to buying a home,
black
Americans
find themselves at a financial disadvantage compared to their white peers. The results are an ever-increasing
wealth
gap and more
black
families shut out of the American dream. Solving the problem will require a wholesale rethinking of America's
tax
code. But it will also require both
black
and white
Americans
to make different choices. This urgent, actionable book points the way forward"--From publisher.
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