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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... 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 Figures / Abbreviations FIGURES Figure 2.1 . G. A. Cohen's ...
... 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 Figures / Abbreviations FIGURES Figure 2.1 . G. A. Cohen's ...
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... white supremacy in all its aspects . Cedric Robinson's pioneering Black Marxism ( 2000 ) , first published in 1983 , recounts the long - troubled history of left - wing black diasporic intellectuals ( W. E. B. Du Bois , C. L. R. James ...
... white supremacy in all its aspects . Cedric Robinson's pioneering Black Marxism ( 2000 ) , first published in 1983 , recounts the long - troubled history of left - wing black diasporic intellectuals ( W. E. B. Du Bois , C. L. R. James ...
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... white supremacy as a theoretical framework , recognition of which should force liberals to concede the centrality of race to , and corresponding injustice of , the present social order . Critical race theory , at least under that ...
... white supremacy as a theoretical framework , recognition of which should force liberals to concede the centrality of race to , and corresponding injustice of , the present social order . Critical race theory , at least under that ...
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... white supremacy ; if liberal individualism has not always taken white workers fully into account , then it has often excluded nonwhites altogether ; if it was a post - World War II challenge to explain how the " civilized " Germany of ...
... white supremacy ; if liberal individualism has not always taken white workers fully into account , then it has often excluded nonwhites altogether ; if it was a post - World War II challenge to explain how the " civilized " Germany of ...
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... white supremacy in both a local and global sense should be the overarching sociopolitical concept with which critical race theorists work . In chapters 7 and 8 , accordingly , I try to map out how the idea of white supremacy could ...
... white supremacy in both a local and global sense should be the overarching sociopolitical concept with which critical race theorists work . In chapters 7 and 8 , accordingly , I try to map out how the idea of white supremacy could ...
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