The Racial Contract, 25th Anniversary Edition
The Racial Contract 25th Anniversary Edition by Charles W. Mills
2022 | ISBN: 1501764276, 1501764284 | English | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
2022 | ISBN: 1501764276, 1501764284 | English | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
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.