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The racial contract /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
[2022].
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| Edición: | Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Notas: | "With a new preface by the author and a foreward by Tommie Shelby"-- page 1 of cover. "First edition published 1997 by Cornell University Press"-- title page verso. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxix, 171 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501764295 1501764292 9781501764301 1501764306 9780801471346 0801471346 9780801471353 0801471354 |