The racial contract

Collections
Race & Ethnicity
Author
Mills, Charles W.
Abstract

Argues that racially structured discrimination is the norm by using social contract theory.

Description
Contents: 1. Overview: The Racial Contract is political, moral and epistemological. The Racial Contract is a historical actuality. The Racial Contract is an exploitation contract -- 2. Details: The Racial Contract norms (and races) space. The Racial Contract norms (and races) the individual. The Racial Contract underwrites the modern social contract. The Racial Contract has to be enforced through violence and ideological conditioning -- 3. "Naturalized" merits: The Racial Contract historically tracks the actual moral/political consciousness of (most) white moral agents. The Racial Contract has always been recognized by nonwhites as the real moral/political agreement to be challenged. The "Racial Contract" as a theory is explanatorily superior to the raceless social contract.
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Date Issued
1997
Publisher
Cornell University Press
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Has Other Format(s)
bibid: 3080545
ISBN
9780801471353 (ebook)
0801471354 (ebook)
0801434548 (hardback)
9780801434549 (hardback)
0801484634 (paperback)
9780801484636 (paperback)
Type
book
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