It is important because it shows how racially neutral laws, including the tax law, have very racially disparate effects and make points that once heard cannot be unheard and puts the tax system in a whole new light, which can also be applied to effects on gender and other important metrics. I can’t think of any other recent book that can match The Whiteness of Wealth in its importance in illuminating a new analytical framework.

— Alice G. Abreu, Honorable Nelson A. Diaz Professor of Law and director of the Center for Tax Law and Public Policy, Temple University Beasley School of Law Philadelphia