Racism’s reach into tax law went unexamined even in elite training

Evidence

I’d known since that day on the corner of 166th Street and Morris Avenue how racism affected the administration of criminal justice. In school I learned how racism had affected where we lived, where we went to school, where we worked, and whom we could marry. But I had never before considered if racism affected how much we pay in taxes. I graduated from the premier tax program in the United States and never once did any of my professors suggest that race mattered when it came to tax law. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 32

Categorization

• SEED: The gap-in-knowledge move — ‘graduated from the premier tax program and never once was race mentioned’ — is a strong essay framing for the reader’s structural-racism argument.