{"id":3125,"date":"2009-11-13T22:25:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T22:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3125"},"modified":"2017-03-07T23:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T23:25:56","slug":"the-racial-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3125","title":{"rendered":"The Racial Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Racial Contract<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cornell University Press
\n<\/a>1997
\n192 pages
\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/2
\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-8014-8463-6
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8014-3454-9<\/p>\n

Charles W. Mills<\/a><\/strong>, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy
\nNorthwestern University<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Winner of the Myers Outstanding Book Award, given by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America<\/em><\/p>\n

The Racial Contract<\/em> puts classic Western<\/a> social contract<\/a> theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism<\/a> and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged \u201ccontract\u201d has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence \u201cwhites\u201d and \u201cnon-whites,\u201d 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<\/em> argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state.<\/p>\n

Holding up a mirror to mainstream philosophy, this provocative book explains the evolving outline of the racial contract from the time of the New World<\/a> conquest and subsequent colonialism to the written slavery contract, to the \u201cseparate but equal\u201d system of segregation<\/a> in the twentieth-century United States. According to Mills, the contract has provided the theoretical architecture justifying an entire history of European atrocity against non-whites, from David Hume<\/a>\u2019s and Immanuel Kant<\/a>\u2019s claims that blacks had inferior cognitive power, to the Holocaust<\/a>, to the kind of imperialism in Asia that was demonstrated by the Vietnam War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mills suggests that the ghettoization of philosophical work on race is no accident. This work challenges the assumption that mainstream theory is itself raceless.<\/strong> Just as feminist theory has revealed orthodox political philosophy\u2019s invisible white male bias, Mills\u2019s explication of the racial contract exposes its racial underpinnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“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 \u201ccontract\u201d has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence \u201cwhites\u201d and \u201cnon-whites,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,1467,1196,8,17,6941,26,6940,394],"tags":[127,1152,1131],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-law","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-slavery","category-socialscience","tag-charles-mills","tag-charles-w-mills","tag-cornell-university-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52214,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions\/52214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}