The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix It Brown Dorothy A.
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix It Brown Dorothy A. A groundbreaking expos of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor…
Specifikacia The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix It Brown Dorothy A.
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix It Brown Dorothy A.
A groundbreaking expos of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policyDorothy A. As a young black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she'd seen how racism limited the lives of her family and neighbors. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race.
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. Her law school classes offered a refreshing contrast: Tax law was about numbers, and the only color that mattered was green. 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