Tax law is widely perceived as race-neutral yet is not

Evidence

Tax law was about math, and I was sure I’d chosen a career where race had nothing to do with my work. … I have never been more wrong about anything in my life. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 17

Categorization

• SEED: The rhetorical pivot — tax law as math, race as irrelevant, then the reversal — is the hook of the whole book and a model for opening an essay arguing facial neutrality masks mechanism.