We live in a society wherein anti-Black racism is pervasive. It infiltrates every aspect of life, including work life spaces. In spite of the recent call for higher education to become antiracist, a tall order for an institution literally and figuratively built on racist attitudes and behaviors, higher education continues to be a cesspool for racism. Literature is replete with stories of the toll working in such environments takes on Black and Brown people. Some have called it “The Black Tax.” Palmer and Walker (2020) riff off of Rochester’s (2018) popularization of the financial “Black Tax” to relate it to psycho-social realities of Black people. Palmer and Walker define it as “the psychological weight or stressor that Black people experience from consciously or unconsciously thinking about how White Americans perceive the social construct of Blackness” (para. 2). Black and Brown adult educators pay this tax multiple times in the course of working in academe and that tax is doubled when they teach subjects that center equity and social justice. This paper will share through dialogic reconstruction multivocal layered accounts of Black and Brown adult educators, each with a different positionality, but all who understand what it means to pay the Black tax in adult education. Working from a critical race lens, the authors engage in a collaborative evocative autoethnography to analyze their experiences with the impact of the Black tax on their role as adult education professors in higher education. We determined the following themes as salient to our Black Tax experience: A sick place, moving the line, bring me a rock, and weaponizing our power. Understanding how anti-Black racism operates is key to adult education as a discipline moving toward its ever-elusive goal of parity and justice and reflecting on its theories and practices that stymie those efforts.

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“我要两个请……咳”：支付成人教育中的黑税

我们生活在一个反黑人种族主义普遍存在的社会中。它渗透到生活的方方面面，包括工作生活空间。尽管最近呼吁高等教育成为反种族主义者，对于一个从字面上和形象上建立在种族主义态度和行为基础上的机构来说，这是一项艰巨的任务，但高等教育仍然是种族主义的污水池。文学作品中充斥着在这样的环境中工作对黑人和棕色人种的伤害的故事。有人称其为“黑色税”。Palmer 和 Walker（2020 年）借鉴了罗切斯特（2018 年）对金融“黑人税”的普及，将其与黑人的心理社会现实联系起来。Palmer 和 Walker 将其定义为“黑人在有意识或无意识地思考美国白人如何看待黑人的社会结构时所经历的心理压力或压力源”（第 2 段）。黑人和棕色人种的成人教育工作者在学术界工作期间多次缴纳这项税，当他们教授以公平和社会正义为中心的科目时，该税会翻倍。本文将通过对话重建来分享黑人和棕色成人教育者的多声分层叙述，每个人都有不同的立场，但所有人都明白在成人教育中缴纳黑人税意味着什么。从关键的比赛镜头工作，作者参与了一项令人回味的协作性自我民族志，以分析他们在黑人税对其作为高等教育成人教育教授角色的影响方面的经历。我们确定了以下主题对我们的黑税体验很重要：生病的地方，移动线路，给我一块石头，以及武器化我们的力量。了解反黑人种族主义如何运作是成人教育作为一门朝着其始终难以实现的平等和正义目标迈进并反思阻碍这些努力的理论和实践的学科的关键。