Racial contracts are subordinate to civilizing contracts

Evidence

In other words, the racial contract – as per Mills – is only a late installment on a more fundamental one, the civilizing contract. — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 27

Categorization

• QUESTION: If solidarity and cohesion have traditionally been built around a civilizing/racial contract that excludes ‘pre-civilized’ others, what does this suggest about positive-shared-project solidarity as a rival mechanism?
• XREF: connects to: Social contract theory embeds a tacit savage-versus-civilized opposition rather than only a nature-versus-civility one — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 8

Related

• Social contract theory embeds a tacit savage-versus-civilized opposition rather than only a nature-versus-civility one (similarity 0.88)
• Critiques of contract theory’s racial basis predate Charles Mills (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Social contract theory embeds a tacit savage-versus-civilized opposition rather than only a nature-versus-civility one #responds-to (0.75) — , Stephanie B. Martens - Civilization and…, 8