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The racial contract
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- Creator
- Charles W. Mills
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997
- Physical Details
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- xii, 171 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780801484636, 0801471354, 0801484634, 9780801434549, 9780801471353, 0801434548
- OCLC
- ocm36909028, ocn887802541
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-161) and index.
- 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