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The racial contract / Charles W. Mills

Mills, Charles W., 1951-2021 [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2022]

171 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Mills, Charles W. (Charles Wade) : Racial contract. - Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: The racial contract / Mills, Charles W. (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-5017-6427-1 (hardcover); 978-1-5017-6428-8 (paperback)

978-1-5017-6430-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 978-1-5017-6429-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

9781501764288

OCoLC: 1312274776     

CC 7700      Ähnliche Literatur

HT1523

305.8

Basisklassifikation: 08.44 (Sozialphilosophie) ; 08.45 (Politische Philosophie)

*Ethnische Gruppe ; Inter-Gruppenbeziehung ; Sozialvertrag ; Rassismus ; Kolonialismus      Zum Register

*Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassismus      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Race relations ; Racism ; Social contract ; White supremacy movements ; Political science -- Philosophy

"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"--