The Racial Contract

by Mills, Charles W.

• ISBN13: 9780801484636
• ISBN10: 0801484634
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780801471346
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781501764288
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
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Summary

A winner of the Myers Outstanding Book Award given by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Charles W. Mills is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is author of Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race, also from Cornell.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
Overview	9	(32)
The Racial Contract is political, moral and epistemological	9	(10)
The Racial Contract is a historical actuality	19	(12)
The Racial Contract is an exploitation contract	31	(10)
Details	41	(50)
The Racial Contract norms (and races) space	41	(12)
The Racial Contract norms (and races) the individual	53	(9)
The Racial Contract underwrites the modern social contract	62	(19)
The Racial Contract has to be enforced through violence and ideological conditioning	81	(10)
``Naturalized'' Merits	91	(44)
The Racial Contract historically tracks the actual moral/political consciousness of (most) white moral agents	91	(18)
The Racial Contract has always been recognized by nonwhites as the real moral/political agreement to be challenged	109	(11)
The ``Racial Contract'' as a theory is explanatorily superior to the raceless social contract	120	(15)
Notes	135	(28)
Index	163