# The Racial Contract

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- Authors: [Charles W. Mills](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-w-mills)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2022-04-15
- Genres: Sociology

## Description

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.

## Editions

### The Racial Contract

- Publisher: Cornell University
- ISBN: 978-15-0176-428-8
- Pages: 216
- Published: 2022-04-15
- Language: en_US