Racial inequality shapes American tax outcomes, not just marriage, housing, and wages.

Evidence

It’s long been understood that blacks and whites live in separate and unequal worlds that shape whom we marry, where we buy a home, whom we have as neighbors, and how we build a future for our children. Race affects where we go to college and how we pay for it. Race influences where we work and how much we are paid. What my research showed was that all of this also determines how much we pay in taxes. Taxpayers bring their racial identities to their tax returns. As in so many parts of American life, being black is more likely to hurt and being white is more likely to help. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 38

Categorization

• SEED: The thesis statement ‘Taxpayers bring their racial identities to their tax returns’ could anchor an essay’s lede — personal identity as a line-item on a 1040.
• XREF: connects to: County revenue dependence aligned with racial-geographic segregation — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 80; Race-neutral tax reforms perpetuate racial wealth gaps unless they account for societal racism — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 70; Neighborhood racial composition drives home appreciation and tax outcomes. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 208 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: County revenue dependence aligned with racial-geographic segregation — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 80; Race-neutral tax reforms perpetuate racial wealth gaps unless they account for societal racism — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 70; Neighborhood racial composition drives home appreciation and tax outcomes. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 208 (+8 more)