Andrew Kahrl
@andrewkahrl
Professor of History and African American Studies, Univ. of Virginia / Author of The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
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I'm reading Andrew Kahrl's The Black Tax: 'exact opposite of what [we've] been led to believe about the distribution of tax & public spending in the US' from the experience of George Floyd's great great grandfather to this day. We speak on The Taxcast soon uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-bl…
"The Black Tax is an ambitious and powerful book, a sweeping and damning indictment of structural racism in the tax system." Great review of The Black Tax by @victorerikray in Democracy Journal democracyjournal.org/magazine/73/ta…


This event features the book THE BLACK TAX , it has all the things I love: excellent research, deep and beautiful prose, and an indictment of state financial systems. A searing and critical look at inequality! Can’t wait to talk Andrew Kahrl Busboys and Poets RSVP now!

Our podcast The Taxcast is out! The less known struggles against tax injustice, from George Floyd’s great great grandfather to this day. Naomi Fowler naomifowler.bsky.social speaks to Andrew Kahrl of The Black Tax: 150 years of theft, exploitation & dispossession in America podcasts.taxjustice.net/episode/144-th…
I'm excited to talk about my new book The Black Tax with the great Local D.C. park mom, now 45! at Busboys and Poets on July 15. If you are in DC, come out. Register to attend here: eventbrite.com/e/the-black-ta…

Karen E. Fields, sociologist, scholar of West African religion, translator of Emile Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life, co-author with her sister Barbara J. Fields of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, died yesterday morning. havenswrightcenter.wisc.edu/2013/10/08/rac…


My first MS Book Festival panel of the day: African American History, with Michael Morris, Jasmine L. Holmes, Andrew Kahrl, and Mark Whitaker




📅 Join us! On November 7th we'll present an urgent discussion about the past and future prospects for equal housing opportunities with Andrew Kahrl and Josh Scott of Virginia Community Voice at Black History Museum. Learn more + register here: homeofva.org/events/lets-ta…

Excited to share this roundtable review of The Black Tax, published in the latest issue of Modern American History, featuring incredibly generous and thoughtful remarks from Marcia Chatelain, Camille Walsh, Dorothy Brown, Todd Michney, and G. Aron Ramirez. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Americans heading to the polls today would be wise to take a listen to this month's episode ft. Andrew Kahrl on the U.S. taxation. Who pays taxes? Who benefits? And who is frequently left holding the short end of the stick. Check it out! traffic.libsyn.com/whomakescents/…