Lexington Books
Pages: 258
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-0365-5 • Hardback • June 2015 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-4985-0367-9 • Paperback • November 2016 • $51.99 • (£40.00)
978-1-4985-0366-2 • eBook • June 2015 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Andre L. Smith is associate professor at the Widener University School of Law
Chapter One: Does it Matter What Slaves Thought Direct Tax Meant in the US Constitution
Chapter Two: PreColonial African Tax Experiences
Chapter Three: Tax and the Rise of White Supremacy in the US
Chapter Four: No Reparations Without Taxation
Chapter Five: Tax and the Demise of White Supremacy in the United States
Chapter Six: Critical Race Tax Theory in the 21st Century
One institution hardly ever comes to mind when talk turns to institutional racism: our tax system. Most of us simply do not think about racism when we think about taxes. Andre Smith does. Smith . . . has a timely new book out — Essays on the Relationship Between Tax Law and Racial Economic Justice: Black Tax — that just may redefine what we mean by institutional racism.
— Too Much