26 Best history books like The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown

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The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

By: Dorothy A. Brown

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o…

"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On average married black women contribute 40 percent to household income compared with only 29 percent for white women.° Simply put, all wives did not contribute to their households in the same way: Black women were likely to earn as much (or more) money as their husbands, while white women were likely to earn much less. This was certainly true in the case of my parents (whose income was more or less equal most years). But the joint tax return system, under which most married couples file their taxes together, offers the greatest benefits to households where one spouse contributes much less than the other to household income. That meant couples like my parents-my hardworking, home-owning, God-fearing parents, who wanted to earn a little bit more to enjoy their lives after raising two daughters-weren't getting those breaks. My parents' tax bill was so high because they were married to each other. Marriage-which many conservatives assure us is the road out of black poverty -is in fact making black couples poorer. And because the IRS does not publish statistics by race, we would never know. 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. The implications of this go far beyond the forms you file every April. In the long run, tax policy affects whether and how you'll be able to build wealth. If you're eligible for tax breaks, you either pay less in taxes throughout the year or receive a larger refund in the spring. If, like my parents, you're considered ineligible for a particular tax break, you never see that money. One missed tax break may not sound like much, but those dollars not given to Uncle Sam can be put into your bank account, invested in stocks or property, or used to build home equity through improvements or repairs every year. Think of that money as an annual pay raise – but if you do not get it, you cannot save it. Over time those dollars, or the lack of them, add up to increased or depleted wealth"

-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On average married black women contribute 40 percent to household income compared with only 29 percent for white women.° Simply put, all wives did not contribute to their households in the same way: Black women were likely to earn as much (or more) money as their husbands, while white women were likely to earn much less. This was certainly true in the case of my parents (whose income was more or less equal most years). But the joint tax return system, under which most married couples file their taxes together, offers the greatest benefits to households where one spouse contributes much less than the other to household income. That meant couples like my parents-my hardworking, home-owning, God-fearing parents, who wanted to earn a little bit more to enjoy their lives after raising two daughters-weren't getting those breaks. My parents' tax bill was so high because they were married to each other. Marriage-which many conservatives assure us is the road out of black poverty -is in fact making black couples poorer. And because the IRS does not publish statistics by race, we would never know. 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. The implications of this go far beyond the forms you file every April. In the long run, tax policy affects whether and how you'll be able to build wealth. If you're eligible for tax breaks, you either pay less in taxes throughout the year or receive a larger refund in the spring. If, like my parents, you're considered ineligible for a particular tax break, you never see that money. One missed tax break may not sound like much, but those dollars not given to Uncle Sam can be put into your bank account, invested in stocks or property, or used to build home equity through improvements or repairs every year. Think of that money as an annual pay raise – but if you do not get it, you cannot save it. Over time those dollars, or the lack of them, add up to increased or depleted wealth"

-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

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1. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

By: Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed thems… read more

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2. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By: Richard Rothstein

2.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more

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3. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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4. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

By: Edward E. Baptist

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more

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5. Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877

By: Richard B. Morris , Henry Steele Commager , Eric Foner

3.67

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) ma… read more

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6. Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin

4.38

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major biography of one of our most influential but least known judicial activists that pr… read more

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7. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

By: Joanna Schwartz

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more

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8. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

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"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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9. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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10. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

By: Heather McGhee

4.63

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more

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"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."

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"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."

-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."

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"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"

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11. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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12. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

By: Dana Mattioli

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more

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13. On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care

By: Victor Ray

4.35

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial… read more

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14. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

By: Mehrsa Baradaran

4.47

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

“Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.” ―Ta-Nehisi Co… read more

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"Perhaps because the bank was identified with the endeavors of the newly freed negro, wrote historians Kindsor and Sagarin, anyone who dared to raise a cry against the mismanagement was charged with b…"

-Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

"The scheme began to unravel following the Panic of 1873 when railroad investments failed. The bank experienced several runs at the height of the panic. The panic would not have affected the bank if i…"

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15. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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Cover of A Healthy State of Panic: Follow Your Fears to Build Wealth, Crush Your Career, and Win at Life by Farnoosh Torabi

16. A Healthy State of Panic: Follow Your Fears to Build Wealth, Crush Your Career, and Win at Life

By: Farnoosh Torabi

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of the popular finance podcast So Money , this accessible and clever guide to lean… read more

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Cover of The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market by Naomi Oreskes

17. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

By: Naomi Oreskes

4.42

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America… read more

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Cover of Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic

18. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

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Cover of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

19. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

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Cover of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery

20. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

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Cover of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

21. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)

By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally work… read more

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Cover of The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America by Adam Serwer

22. The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America

By: Adam Serwer

4.25

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

"Trump summoned the most treacherous forces in American history and conducted them with the ease of… read more

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"The cruelty is the point"

-Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America

"Multiracial democracy is hard and messy and sometimes rude, but it is preferable to the alternatives"

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"Since the Civil War, American Jews have built a place for themselves here much the way other minorities have-by holding the United States accountable to its own principles"

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"American religious pluralism, however imperfectly practiced, is centuries older than the European commitment to purging anti-Semitism, which is younger than Israel itself."

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Cover of You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix

23. You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America

By: Paul Kix

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campa… read more

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Cover of The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown

24. The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

By: Dorothy A. Brown

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert o… read more

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"Once again, a single sentence would hold the key. I found it in The Economic Status of Black Women: An Exploratory Investigation, a 1990 staff report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: On averag…"

-Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It

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25. Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

By: Jonathan Allen

3.87

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Almost no one thought Joe Biden could make it back to the White House—not Donald Trump, not the two… read more

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Cover of The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez

26. The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

By: Emmanuel Saez

4.32

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

America’s runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system. Even as they became fabulousl… read more

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"Development is not primarily a matter of mechanically collecting taxes to fund spending, no matter how useful this spending may be. Development is about building trust in institutions, including, mos…"

-Emmanuel Saez, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

"These knottier questions have led some observers to suggest that national account statistics (and therefore our distributional national accounts) underestimate growth. More or less everyone who’s bee…"

-Emmanuel Saez, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

"In these pages, we have made propositions to meet those challenges: a sharply progressive wealth tax to curb the forms of rent extraction associated with extreme and entrenched wealth, an effective t…"

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Cover of Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns by Gregg Colburn

27. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

By: Gregg Colburn

4.23

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more

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Cover of Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty

28. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

By: Conor Dougherty

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes… read more

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Cover of Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar

29. Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

By: Amy Klobuchar

3.69

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America today… read more

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Cover of The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump by Clay Cane

30. The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump

By: Clay Cane

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Part history and part cultural analysis, The Grift chronicles the nuanced history of Black Republic… read more

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Cover of The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future by Robert P. Jones

31. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future

By: Robert P. Jones

4.55

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities… read more

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26 Top audiobook books like The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown

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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

Joshua Bloom , Waldo E. Martin Jr.

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

4.38

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Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

Joanna Schwartz

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Stephen Vladeck

4.21

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30 must-read audiobook books like Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable by Joanna Schwartz

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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

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Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

Joanna Schwartz

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Stephen Vladeck

4.21

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