Racial Taxation Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869–1973 / Camille Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsh, Camille, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--United States--Finance--History.

Education.

Taxation--United States.

Taxation.

Segregation in education--United States.

Segregation in education.

African Americans--Education--United States--History.

African Americans.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Summary:

In the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to 'taxpayer citizenship' - the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. Tracing the genealogy of this concept, Camille Walsh shows how tax policy and taxpayer identity were built on the foundations of white supremacy.

Contents:

Introduction. Taxpayer citizenship and the right to education

A shabby meanness: origins of unequal taxation

Let them plow: beyond the black-white paradigm

We are taxpaying citizens: separate and colorblind

A drain on taxpayers: graduate school segregation and the road to Brown

The white man's tax dollar: segregationists and backlash

Taxpayers and taxeaters: poverty and the constitution

The rich richer and the poor poorer: intersectional claims

Conclusion. Education, inequality, and the hidden power of taxes.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908493-2-8

979-88-908493-3-5

1-4696-3896-7

1-4696-3895-9

OCLC:

1021882295