Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism

New York, NY: Oup Usa (2017)
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Abstract

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.

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Chapters

White Ignorance

The development of social epistemology in recent decades is a welcome turn away from Cartesian individualism. But the centrality of oppression to societies in general is still insufficiently recognized in this literature. This chapter looks at “white ignorance” as an example of a particula... see more

The Whiteness of Political Philosophy

This chapter begins with a retrospective look by Charles Mills at the development of Africana and critical race philosophy over the last thirty years, both the progress made by the fields and their continuing marginalization in the discipline. The chapter uses the fate of Mills’s book, The... see more

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Last affiliation: CUNY Graduate Center

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