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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... tradition in philosophy , the chapters are analytic rather than Continental in style . And finally , as noted , while I begin with a sympathetic exegesis of crucial terms in the apparatus of historical xiii Introduction.
... tradition in philosophy , the chapters are analytic rather than Continental in style . And finally , as noted , while I begin with a sympathetic exegesis of crucial terms in the apparatus of historical xiii Introduction.
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... tradition - is sup- posed to be " critical theory " insofar as its supposed mission is to seek wis- dom and speak truth to power , rather than uncritically affirm the con- ventional wisdom and propitiate power . Of how many subjects in ...
... tradition - is sup- posed to be " critical theory " insofar as its supposed mission is to seek wis- dom and speak truth to power , rather than uncritically affirm the con- ventional wisdom and propitiate power . Of how many subjects in ...
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... traditional analytic task of establishing - by clear initial statement of terms , textual citation , and argument - what Marx actually meant by specific concepts and what the theoretical impli- cations would be : in short , the familiar ...
... traditional analytic task of establishing - by clear initial statement of terms , textual citation , and argument - what Marx actually meant by specific concepts and what the theoretical impli- cations would be : in short , the familiar ...
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... tradition " whose historic foci and concerns cannot be simply assimilated to mainstream white Marxist theory . So even if the origin of white supremacy is most plausibly explained within a historical materialist framework that locates ...
... tradition " whose historic foci and concerns cannot be simply assimilated to mainstream white Marxist theory . So even if the origin of white supremacy is most plausibly explained within a historical materialist framework that locates ...
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... tradition - not just the United States , but also the Caribbean and Latin America - there is a long tradition of oppositional in- tellectual engagement with the structures of white racial domination , which could reasonably be dubbed ...
... tradition - not just the United States , but also the Caribbean and Latin America - there is a long tradition of oppositional in- tellectual engagement with the structures of white racial domination , which could reasonably be dubbed ...
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