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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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Naomi Fowler naomifowler.bsky.social (@naomi_fowler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

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"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…

Adam X. McNeil (ABD) (aka Metaphors & Memes) (@culturedmodesty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The National Park Service’s Southeast Regional Office is seeking a Lead Researcher to prepare a National Historic Landmark nomination for the American Beach Historic District. The beach served as a segregated planned ocean beach resort established by Black professionals.

Local D.C. park mom, now 45! (@drmchatelain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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!

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I spoke with Arlene Martinez at Good Jobs First about The Black Tax and, among other topics, cleared up any confusion over the provocative and widely misread title NYTimes chose for my recent op-ed. Check it out! goodjobsfirst.org/5-questions-wi…

Tax Justice Network Bsky: @taxjustice.net (@taxjusticenet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

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I talked about my book The Black Tax and the fight for tax justice at the local level in the US on the Tax Justice Network's outstanding podcast Taxcast. Check it out podcasts.taxjustice.net/episode/144-th…

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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…

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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…

BookTV on C-SPAN2 (@booktv) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Starting soon on CSPAN 2, a book talk on "The Black Tax." History professor Andrew Kahrl argues that America has used unfair tax laws to disadvantage Black people from Reconstruction to the current day. Watch, starting at 7pm ET.

Greg (@greggrandin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shouldn’t Harris be delivering, on a stage in Springfield, Ohio, a defining, prime-time speech, on immigration, tolerance, racism, and US openness to the world?

HOME of VA (@homeofva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📅 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…

đź“… Join us! On November 7th we'll present an urgent discussion about the past and future prospects for equal housing opportunities with <a href="/andrewkahrl/">Andrew Kahrl</a> and Josh Scott of <a href="/VACV_Official/">Virginia Community Voice</a> at <a href="/bhm_va/">Black History Museum</a>. 

Learn more + register here: homeofva.org/events/lets-ta…
Andrew Kahrl (@andrewkahrl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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/…

Who Makes Cents (@whomakescents) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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/…