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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... Critique of Habermas's Philosophy of Law by James L. Marsh New Critical Theory : Essays on Liberation edited by William S. Wilkerson and Jeffrey Paris The Quest for Community and Identity : Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy ...
... Critique of Habermas's Philosophy of Law by James L. Marsh New Critical Theory : Essays on Liberation edited by William S. Wilkerson and Jeffrey Paris The Quest for Community and Identity : Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy ...
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... critique and transformation as radically as — indeed even more radically than— the white European working class , who were after all beneficiaries of and accessories to the same system oppressing blacks . We associate critical theory ...
... critique and transformation as radically as — indeed even more radically than— the white European working class , who were after all beneficiaries of and accessories to the same system oppressing blacks . We associate critical theory ...
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... critique of abstract individualism , the paradox of reconciling proclama- tions of humanism with mass murder , the need to harness normative the- ory to the practical task of human liberation . So if Marx's proletariat too often had to ...
... critique of abstract individualism , the paradox of reconciling proclama- tions of humanism with mass murder , the need to harness normative the- ory to the practical task of human liberation . So if Marx's proletariat too often had to ...
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... critique . " The ' Racial Contract ' as Methodology ( Not Hy- pothesis ) : A Reply to Jorge Garcia " was presented as a response to Garcia on a panel on " Subversive Contractarianism " sponsored by the Society for Philosophy and Public ...
... critique . " The ' Racial Contract ' as Methodology ( Not Hy- pothesis ) : A Reply to Jorge Garcia " was presented as a response to Garcia on a panel on " Subversive Contractarianism " sponsored by the Society for Philosophy and Public ...
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