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Der »Racial Contract«, Charles W. Mills' bahnbrechendes Buch, das erstmals 1997 erschienen ist und hier in vollständiger deutscher Übersetzung vorliegt, stellt die klassische westliche Vertragstheorie auf den Prüfstand. Mit einem umfassenden Blick auf die europäische Expansionspolitik und den Rassismus der vergangenen 500 Jahre zeigt Mills, wie die Idee des »Racial Contract« die Grundlage für eine globale Vormachtstellung Europas geschaffen ha...

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The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites, " full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theo...

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- Ein stiller Landwirt und Elchjäger bietet der sowjetischen Armee in den eisigen Weiten Kareliens die Stirn. - Eine wunderschöne junge russische Geschichtsstudentin wird in der Verteidigung für ihr Land zur erfolgreichsten Scharfschützin des 2. Weltkriegs. - Ein bescheidener amerikanischer Farmerssohn vollbringt am Kasserinpass Erstaunliches. - Ein patriotischer japanischer Soldat gibt auf einer einsamen Insel im Pazifik mit seinem letzten Sc...

Emphasizing the importance of the space programme to the scientific, social and cultural history of the last half of the 20th century, this brief history celebrates the technological leap that the space programme represents, a feat of teamwork, innovation, dedication and mastery.

Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons, yet liberalism has denied equality to those it saw as black sub-persons. In Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism, political philosopher Charles Mills challenges mainstream accounts that ignore this history and its current legacy in the United States today.

Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons, yet liberalism has denied equality to those it saw as black sub-persons. In Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism, political philosopher Charles Mills challenges mainstream accounts that ignore this history and its current legacy in the United States today.

Mills suggests that the ghettoization of philosophical work on race is no accident and challenges the assumption that mainstream theory is itself raceless. As feminist theory sought to reveal orthodox political philosophy's invisible male bias, so Mills seeks to expose its racial underpinnings.

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.

Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial minorities. Mills points out the absence of any philosophical narrative theorizing and detailing race's centrality to the recent history of the...

This work is a collection of articles written over many years as well as unpublished new scholarship that explores the common themes of race and class in the Caribbean and overcoming social domination. The essays consider abstract political theory (Marxism and critical and race theory) and also focus on specific Caribbean issues and events such as the portrayals of the Jamaican left, the collapse of the Grenada Revolution and the significance ...