1st Edition

The Philosophy of Charles W. Mills Race and the Relations of Power

Edited By Mark William Westmoreland Copyright 2025
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Charles W. Mills (1951–2021) was considered by many to be the most well-known philosopher specializing in political philosophy and critical philosophy of race. This is the first collection of essays to critically examine the key themes of Mills’s philosophy across his major works. The chapters in this volume engage with major themes such as the racial contract, non-ideal theory, metaphysics of... Read more

Foreword George Yancy

Introduction Mark William Westmoreland

1. Diagnosing White Aphasia: Mills and Domination Contract Mark William Westmoreland

2. Curdled Contracts: Reading Mills through a Lugonesian Spirit Taylor Rogers

3. Corresponding Contracts: The Intersectional Mills Corey Reed

4. Toward the Bourgeois Revolution: Situating Mills’s Liberal Turn Rafael Vizcaíno

5. Mills on Class in Relation to Race Lawrence Blum

6. Mills, Contracts, and the Limits of Liberalism Clevis Headley

7. A Page of History: Mills’s Black Radical Kantianism and American Legal (Racial) Realism Timothy J. Golden

8. Building (Conceptual) Bridges: Mills’s Non-Ideal Theory and Disciplinary Whitopias Emmalon Davis

Biography

Mark William Westmoreland, PhD, teaches philosophy at Ocean County College. He is the co-editor (with Andrea J. Pitts) of Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (SUNY) and author of “Bergson, Colonialism, and Race” in Interpreting Bergson (Cambridge) and other essays on race and pedagogy.

"This volume offers an original collection of essays that showcase new, exciting, and much-needed philosophical work, carrying on the legacy of the remarkable late Africana philosopher Charles Mills. It invokes the promise of the future of political philosophy at the intersection of philosophy of race and Africana philosophy."

Elvira Basevich, University of California, Davis, USA