TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The racial contract
A1  - Mills, Charles W. kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Ithaca New York
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 2022
ED  - Twenty-fifth anniversary edition
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5574108
AB  - "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"--
SN  - 978-1-5017-6427-1 kovakantinen
KW  - rasismi
KW  - rodut
KW  - yhteiskuntasopimus
KW  - valkoihoiset
KW  - valtio-oppi
KW  - Race relations.
KW  - Racism.
KW  - Social contract.
KW  - White supremacy movements.
KW  - Political science : Philosophy.
ER  -