Tax law attraction rested on its supposed colorblind neutrality

Evidence

So when I saw that man in the back of the police car, my mother’s reaction told me there was not a thing either one of us could do about it. And that’s how I became a tax lawyer. Because I learned early on that people might look at me and see black, but as far as tax law was concerned, the only color that mattered was green. I attended Fordham University and majored in accounting, then got my law degree from Georgetown and earned a master’s in tax law from NYU. Tax law was about math, and I was sure I’d chosen a career where race had nothing to do with my work. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 17

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tax law is widely perceived as race-neutral yet is not — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 17; Facially neutral tax rules hide racial impact until individual cases surface — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1254; Tax policy’s racially disparate effects are pervasive and largely invisible — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 562 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Tax law is widely perceived as race-neutral yet is not — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 17; Facially neutral tax rules hide racial impact until individual cases surface — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 1254; Tax policy’s racially disparate effects are pervasive and largely invisible — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 562 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Tax law is widely perceived as race-neutral yet is not #corroborates (0.94) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 17