Full Description
Race is everywhere and pretending not to see it only does more damage than good. This book delves into the work of Charles Mills and how his underlying philosophies of race still play out in today's economic, educational, political and sociological arena.
Charles Mills left a legacy of philosophical racial analyses needed to better understand race, racism, whiteness, and white supremacy worldwide. From the Racial Contract to global issues of colonial whiteness and epistemological racial ignorance, Mills' theories still resonate in the research that race scholars conduct today. Needless to say, despite his passing, Charles' work lives on. To honour Mills' scholarship, this book draws on interdisciplinary studies (e.g., sociology, political science, Black studies, and education) to excavate the racial landscape of the U.S. post Trump, Anti-CRT bans, #BLM, and global racial reckonings. Within this volume prominent scholars of race worldwide and, from a variety of disciplines, discuss Mills' theories as applied to contemporary discourses of race, whilst also offering very personal vignettes that best illuminate who Charles was to us all. Essentially, the man behind the theories. Filled with both deep theoretical analyses and personal stories of Charles, this book will liven the spirits, hearts, and hope for racial justice and those who work endlessly towards it.
This book is a key resource for scholars, researchers and practitioners in the fields of education, sociology, political science, racial and ethnic studies, development studies and philosophy. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Race Ethnicity and Education.
Contents
Introduction - Dancing with Charles: A man, scholar, legacy 1. We will greet our enemy with rifles and roses: Charles Mills and the perpetual impact of the Racial Contract 2. The Racial Contract and white saviorism: centering racism's role in undermining housing and education equity 3. White racial ignorance and refusing culpability: how the emotionalities of whiteness ignore race in teacher education 4. Expectations as property of white supremacy: the coloniality of ascriptive expectations within the racial contract 5. Naming the unnamed: a Millsian analysis of the American educational contract 6. Too much talking, not enough listening: the racial contract made manifest in a mixed-race focus group interview 7. Rejecting the racial contract: Charles Mills and critical race theory 8. Charles Mills Ain't Dead! Keeping the spirit of Mills' work alive by understanding and challenging the unrepentant whiteness of the academy
