The black tax
150 years of theft, exploitation, and dispossession in America
- ISBN: 9780226730592
- Editorial: University of Chicago Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: Chicago. Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 443
- Idiomas: Inglés
Revealing a history that is deep, broad, and infuriating, The Black Tax casts a bold light on the racist practices long hidden in the shadows of America's tax regimes.
American taxation is unfair, and it is most unfair to the every people who critically need its support. Not only do taxpayers with fewer resources-less wealth, power, and land-pay moro than the well-off, but they are forced to fight for their rights within an unjust system that undermines any attempts to improve their positiion or economic standing. In The Black Tax, Andrew W. Kahrl reveals the shocking history and ruinous consequences of inequitable and predatory tax laws in this country-above all, widespread and devastating racial dispossession.
Part I: Jim Crow's Fiscal Order. Unaccountable
Across the Tracks
Taken
Part II: Black in the Metropolis. Captives
Disservice
Laboratories of Predation
Part III: A Local Struggle. Citizens and Taxpayers
Black Power/Local Power
Emergency
Part IV: Age of Revolts. Losing Hands
On Our Own
Horror Stories
Part V: Neoliberalism at Home. Starved
Charged
