Andrew W. Kahrl at IU Indianapolis
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Sep 17, 2024 6pm - 8pm
Location
Indiana Avenue is NO LONGER under construction, and is now open both ways.
Free parking available in the lots west of the Walker Theater, marked in the map below as lots A - D. Accessible parking available in lot A. Lot 92 is available for overflow parking.
Enter the building using the main marquee doors surrounding the bygone ticket booth. We will be in the main theatre space with the stage.
Details
FREE FOOD
OPEN TO PUBLIC
IU alumnus Dr. Andrew W. Kahrl, Ph. D., is professor of history and African American studies at the University of Virginia. He specializes in the history of race and inequality in housing, real estate, and local tax policy and administration in the US. He has also researched and written on the social and environmental history of beaches, outdoor recreation, land use and development in the coastal US.
Kahrl received the 2013 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians for his book "The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South" (UNC Press). He also authored "Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline" (Yale UP), and "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (University of Chicago Press). Kahrl served as the principal investigator for the study of the history of African American outdoor recreation for the National Park Service.
In his book The Black Tax, Kahrl tells the long history of Black Americans as local taxpayers and Black history through the lens of local tax systems. It focuses on three related and unresolved problems: over-taxation of Black homes and neighborhoods; maldistribution of the local public goods and services; and
exploitation of tax delinquency laws. His book explores these topics and explains how they have fueled racial inequality and undermined Black struggles to build wealth from Reconstruction to the present. Read his Op-Ed in The New York Times on the inequity of property taxes.
Join us in person Tuesday, Sep. 17, 2024, at 6 p.m. at the Madam Walker Legacy Center. Conversation moderated by Dr. Lasana D. Kazembe, Ph.D., associate professor of Urban Education and Africana Studies.
