From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black RadicalismIn From Class to Race, Charles Mills maps the theoretical route that brought him to the innovative conceptual framework outlined in his academic bestseller The Racial Contract (1997). Mills argues for a new critical theory that develops the insights of the black radical political tradition. While challenging conventional interpretations of key Marxist concepts and claims, the author contends that Marxism has been 'white' insofar as it has failed to recognize the centrality of race and white supremacy to the making of the modern world. By appealing to both mainstream liberal values and the structuralism traditionally associated with the left, Mills asserts that critical race theory can radicalize the mainstream Enlightenment and develop a new kind of contractarianism that deals frontally with race and other forms of social oppression rather than evading them. |
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... European Specters 147 Part III : Critical Race Theory 173 7 White Supremacy as Sociopolitical System 177 8 White Supremacy and Racial Justice 195 9 The " Racial Contract " as Methodology References Index 219 251 271 About the Author 285 ...
... European Specters 147 Part III : Critical Race Theory 173 7 White Supremacy as Sociopolitical System 177 8 White Supremacy and Racial Justice 195 9 The " Racial Contract " as Methodology References Index 219 251 271 About the Author 285 ...
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... European expansionism — as the product , ultimately , of class forces and bourgeois class interests - race as an international global struc- ture then achieves an intersubjective reality whose dialectic cannot simply be reduced to a ...
... European expansionism — as the product , ultimately , of class forces and bourgeois class interests - race as an international global struc- ture then achieves an intersubjective reality whose dialectic cannot simply be reduced to a ...
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... European working class , who were after all beneficiaries of and accessories to the same system oppressing blacks . We associate critical theory with the Enlightenment and modernity . But modernity is usually thought of in Eurocentric ...
... European working class , who were after all beneficiaries of and accessories to the same system oppressing blacks . We associate critical theory with the Enlightenment and modernity . But modernity is usually thought of in Eurocentric ...
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... European workshops of the time . All the issues we now think of as defining of critical theory's concerns were ... Europe as a whole could have car- ried out the savage genocide of indigenous populations and the barbaric enslavement of ...
... European workshops of the time . All the issues we now think of as defining of critical theory's concerns were ... Europe as a whole could have car- ried out the savage genocide of indigenous populations and the barbaric enslavement of ...
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... European expansionism in the modern period as shaping not merely a global history and geography , but , at the discursive level , a mystificatory " history " and " geography , " which need to be ex- posed . So while some critical race ...
... European expansionism in the modern period as shaping not merely a global history and geography , but , at the discursive level , a mystificatory " history " and " geography , " which need to be ex- posed . So while some critical race ...
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