Critiques of contract theory’s racial basis predate Charles Mills
Evidence
The racial contract, in short, sustains the state of white supremacy … Charles Mills’s argument has the virtue of raising insistently the deep connection between dominant accounts of state formation and legitimation in the history of Western political theory and racial subjugation. Yet contrary to the hint in his book, he is neither the first nor the only one to point to such connections — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 23
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Mills’ The Racial Contract and the broader critical-race theory genealogy of contractarian critique.
Related
- White supremacy arises from discursive diffusion, not any racial contract (similarity 0.82)
- Racial contracts are subordinate to civilizing contracts (similarity 0.81)