Publié originalement en 1997 aux États-Unis, The Racial Contract (Le contrat racial) du philosophe Charles W. Mills, expose les fondements raciaux de de la pensée occidentale.
Ce contrat a façonné le système de domination européenne qui fait exister les Blancs et les non-Blancs, en tant que personnes à part entière et sous-personnes. Charles W. Mills place la justice raciale au centre de ses analyses.
The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state.
As this 25th anniversary edition-featuring a foreword by Tommy Shelbie and a new preface by the author-makes clear, the still-urgent The Racial Contract continues to inspire, provoke, and influence thinking about the intersection of the racist underpinnings of political philosophy.
