The Racial Contract / / Charles W. Mills.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Mills, Charles W.,
• MitwirkendeR: Shelby, Tommie,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 25th Anniversary Edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION --; FOREWORD --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. OVERVIEW --; 2. DETAILS --; 3. “NATURALIZED” MERITS --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501764301; 9783110751826; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110994551; 9783110994520
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501764301
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles W. Mills.

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.