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Indlæser... The Racial Contract (1997)af Charles W. Mills
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  tombomp | Oct 31, 2023 |   (1) What exactly do we do with the "racial contract"? Assuming a liberal, classical, American stance of e.g. "all men are created equal," how is this modified? Or does RC only point to and measure the gap between reality and ideal? (2) Isn't this in some (most) ways the same as taking the social contract and combining it with something like... was it Singer who coined the term... moral circles... In any case, isn't the critique here equivalent to saying the social contact's "coverage" needs to be expanded? And that's it? (  ) dcunning11235 | Aug 12, 2023 |  ) haiduk | May 24, 2021 | ) haiduk | May 24, 2021 | fastred | Oct 5, 2020 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
"Holding up a mirror to mainstream philosophy, this book explains the evolving outline of the racial contract from the time of the New World conquest and subsequent colonialism to the written slavery contract, to the "separate but equal" system of segregation in the twentieth-century United States. The contract has provided the theoretical architecture justifying an entire history of European atrocity against non-whites, from David Hume's and Immanuel Kant's claims that blacks had inferior cognitive power, to the Holocaust, to the kind of imperialism in Asia that was demonstrated by the Vietnam War. The ghettoization of philosophical work on race is no accident. This work challenges the assumption that mainstream theory is itself raceless. Just as feminist theory has revealed orthodox political philosophy's invisible white male bias, Mills's explication of the racial contract exposes its racial underpinnings"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Not perfect though because:
- Uses a lot of unnecessary words. This sounds silly, but it makes it tough if you don't realise that a lot of the words used aren't important. Like I guess it's shitty to be all "ugh ACADEMIC LANGUAGE" because part of the book is addressing academic ideas on their own terms but it's enough to be off-putting.
- Doesn't really move outside the ideas of liberalism. Again this seems unfair considering the point of the book but it's a little weird that at the end he seems to be saying "social contract theory is fine except for the race stuff which perverted it", which sort of runs counter to his earlier arguments. I don't expect a serious critique of capitalism, but he really doesn't touch on the economic at all, which is weird and kind of obscures the reality of race exploitation.
Still a great book and worth reading for an important critique of race and its invisibility. (