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The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans

Dorothy A Brown is a law professor at Georgetown. She's the author of The Whiteness of Wealth, how the tax system impoverishes black Americans. When the IRS said we don't know your race, it was never the truth,. You know what the IRS knows? Your name and your zip code. That's exactly where Daniel and his colleagues started when they were on the hunt to suss out whether there was racial discrimination happening with these tax audits.

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