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.