Essay Question
Mills argues that while social contract theory has been primarily about “justice and rights in the abstract,” theories of the Racial Contract have been concerned with “conquest, imperialism, colonialism, white settlement, land rights, race and racism, slavery, jim crow, reparations, apartheid, cultural authenticity, national identity, indigenismo, Afrocentrism, etc.
which have been central to the political struggles of the majority of the world’s population.”
Explain this overall argument from Mills about the contrast between the assumptions of the social contract and his articulation of the racial contract.
