The racial contract

by Mills, Charles W., (Charles Wade)

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Title Statements

Full title :The racial contract / Charles W. Mills.

Summary

"Holding up a mirror to mainstream philosophy, this book explains the evolving outline of the racial contract from the time of the New World conquest and subsequent colonialism to the written slavery contract, to the "separate but equal" system of segregation in the twentieth-century United States. The contract has provided the theoretical architecture justifying an entire history of European atrocity against non-whites, from David Hume's and Immanuel Kant's claims that blacks had inferior cognitive power, to the Holocaust, to the kind of imperialism in Asia that was demonstrated by the Vietnam War. The ghettoization of philosophical work on race is no accident. This work challenges the assumption that mainstream theory is itself raceless. Just as feminist theory has revealed orthodox political philosophy's invisible white male bias, Mills's explication of the racial contract exposes its racial underpinnings"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022.
Edition:Twenty-fifth anniversary edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cornell University Press
Place of Publication:Ithaca [New York]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022.

The Physical Object

Description:xxxix, 171 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781501764271, 1501764276, 9781501764288, 1501764284
oclc:on1284920770
LC Classification:HT1523
Dewey Decimal:305.8

Subjects

Contrat social Mouvements pour la suprématie blanche Political science -- Philosophy Race relations Racism Racisme relations raciales Social contract White supremacy movements