Andrew W. Kahrl

Historian and Author

Andrew W. Kahrl is Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Virginia. He specializes in the history of race and inequality, housing and real estate, and tax policy in the US, as well as the social and environmental history of beaches and coastal development in the US. Kahrl is the author of the books The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America, Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline, and The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South, and has written numerous articles, essays, and opinion pieces for academic and popular publications, including the New York Times, Jacobin, Washington Post, and The Guardian.