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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... color were attracted to Marxism because of its far - ranging historical per- spective , its theoretical centering of oppression , and its promise of libera- tion . But many of these recruits would later become disillusioned , both with ...
... color were attracted to Marxism because of its far - ranging historical per- spective , its theoretical centering of oppression , and its promise of libera- tion . But many of these recruits would later become disillusioned , both with ...
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... color , especially black slaves , have been alienated from their personhood ; if Enlightenment reason has been com- plicit with bourgeois projects , then it has been even more thoroughly cor- rupted by its accommodation to white ...
... color , especially black slaves , have been alienated from their personhood ; if Enlightenment reason has been com- plicit with bourgeois projects , then it has been even more thoroughly cor- rupted by its accommodation to white ...
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... color from the Third World , I have always been drawn to what is categorized as “ radical ” philosophy ; in fact , I am a longtime member of the Radical Philosophy Association . This political orientation is usually asso- ciated with ...
... color from the Third World , I have always been drawn to what is categorized as “ radical ” philosophy ; in fact , I am a longtime member of the Radical Philosophy Association . This political orientation is usually asso- ciated with ...
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