Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism

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Charles W. Mills (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center)

Black Rights/White Wrongs

The Critique of Racial Liberalism

Charles W. Mills (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
08 June 2017

Social & political philosophy; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Politics & government; Political science & theory

Series: Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities

"Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has refused equality to those it saw as sub-persons. Liberalism is the creed of fairness - yet liberalism has been complicit with European imperialism and African slavery. Liberalism is the classic ideology of Enlightenment and political transparency - yet liberalism has cast a dark veil over its actual racist past and present. In sum, liberalism's promise of equal rights has historically been denied to blacks and other people of color. 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 self-conceived liberal polities today. Mills argues that rather than bracket as an anomaly the role of racism in the development of liberal theory, we should see it as shaping that theory in fundamental ways. As feminists have urged us to see the dominant form of liberalism as a patriarchal liberalism, so too Mills suggests we should see it as a racialized liberalism. It is unsurprising, then, if contemporary liberalism has yet to deliver on the recognition of black rights and the correction of white wrongs. These essays look at racial liberalism, past and present: ""white ignorance"" as a guilty ignoring of social reality that facilitates white racial domination; Immanuel Kant's role as the most important liberal theorist of both personhood and sub-personhood; the centrality of racial exploitation in the United States; and the evasion of white supremacy in John Rawls's ""ideal theory"" framing of social justice and in the work of most other contemporary white political philosophers. Nonetheless, Mills still believes that a deracialized liberalism is both possible and desirable. He concludes by calling on progressives to ""Occupy liberalism!"" and develop accordingly a radical liberalism aimed at achieving racial justice."

By: Charles W. Mills (Professor of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy CUNY Graduate Center)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 155mm, Width: 234mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 438g
ISBN: 9780190245429
ISBN 10: 0190245425
Series: Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 08 June 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction Acknowledgments Part I - Racial Liberalism: Epistemology, Personhood, Property 1. New Left Project Interview 2. Occupy Liberalism! 3. Racial Liberalism 4. White Ignorance 5. ""Ideal Theory"" as Ideology 6. Kant's Untermenschen 7. Racial Exploitation Part II - Racial Liberalism: Rawls and Rawlsianism 8. Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls 9. Retrieving Rawls for Racial Justice? 10. The Whiteness of Political Philosophy Epilogue (As Prologue): Toward a Black Radical Liberalism References"

Charles W. Mills is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Reviews for Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism

...this is an essential reading for those concerned with the demographic composition of political science and philosophy as well as those wondering why this should be considered a concern. -- Contemporary Political Theory Black Rights/White Wrongs, Mills's latest book, is that long-awaited result: his most thorough account yet of why and how liberal political theory has gone wrong. He returns to his criticism that liberal theory has mainly been attentive to and representative of the sociohistorical demands of white people (men in particular), but he also argues for a refreshed liberalism that retains its core political commitments while offering a fuller reckoning with the racial hierarchies and inequalities of America's past and present. - Christopher Lebron, The Nation