The Racial Contract

Charles W. Mills (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2022 | 25th Anniversary Edition
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-6428-8 (ISBN)

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The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state.

As this 25th anniversary edition—featuring a foreword by Tommy Shelbie and a new preface by the author—makes clear, the still-urgent The Racial Contract continues to inspire, provoke, and influence thinking about the intersection of the racist underpinnings of political philosophy.

The late Charles Mills (d. 2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, after previously teaching at the University of Oklahoma, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University. His books include Blackness Visible and Black Rights/White Wrongs. Tommie Shelby is the Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University.

INTRODUCTION

1. OVERVIEW

The Racial Contract is political, moral, and epistemological

The Racial Contract is a historical actuality

The Racial Contract is an exploitation contract

2. DETAILS

The Racial Contract norms (and races) space

The Racial Contract norms (and races) the individual

The Racial Contract underwrites the modernsocial contract

The Racial Contract has to be enforced throughviolence and ideological conditioning

3. "NATURALIZED" MERITS

The Racial Contract historically tracks the actual moral/political consciousness of (most) white moral agents

The Racial Contract has always been recognized by nonwhites as the real moral/political agreement to be challenged

The "Racial Contract" as a theory is explanatorily superior to the raceless social contract

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2022
Vorwort	Tommie Shelby
Verlagsort	Ithaca
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5017-6428-4 / 1501764284
ISBN-13	978-1-5017-6428-8 / 9781501764288
Zustand	Neuware