White supremacy arises from discursive diffusion, not any racial contract
Evidence
White supremacy accordingly emerges not out of some imaginary “racial contract” but as a complex product of this discursive diffusion, reified in turn by modern state formation. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 24
Categorization
- XREF: Directly contests Charles Mills’ ‘racial contract’ thesis in The Racial Contract; a useful counterposition.
- DEFINE: Distinguishes discursive-diffusion account from voluntarist contractarian account of white supremacy.
Related
- Critiques of contract theory’s racial basis predate Charles Mills (similarity 0.82)
- Transposing white supremacy to supremacy of whites reveals its meaning. (similarity 0.79)