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(such as myself ) perforce had to do, since there were no appropriate courses and mentors
at the time.
- Carole Pateman and Charles W. Mills, Contract and Domination (Malden, MA: Polity
Press, 2007).
- Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997).
- John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, rev. ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999;
orig. ed. 1971).
- Matt Zwolinski, ed., Arguing about Political Philosophy, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge,
2014; orig. ed. 2009).
- Ann Cudd, “Contractarianism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (rev. 2012; orig.
2000); Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
1988).
- Celeste Friend, “Social Contract Theory,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (n.d.).
- Cornel West, Race Matters, with a new preface by the author (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001;
orig. ed. 1993).
- Fred D’Agostino, Gerald Gaus, and John Thrasher, “Contemporary Approaches to the
Social Contract,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (rev. 2011; orig. 1996).
- Mills, Racial Contract, pp. 2– 4.
- Gordon gives an account in his book Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying
Times (Boulder: Paradigm, 2006), pp. 111– 12, the point of which is to illustrate “Mr. X” ’s
(my) failure to recognize that it is through such organization and the building- up of social
networks that anti- racist progress is made, rather than trying to “use the liberal discursive
practice of writing texts that would stimulate white guilt or simply rely[ing] on the reason-
ableness of white philosophers.” Maybe my confession of failure here is a vindication of
his point.
- “Symposium on Charles Mills’s The Racial Contract” (Mechthild E. Nagel, Richard
Schmitt, Naomi Zack, Charles W. Mills), in Curtis Stokes and Theresa Meléndez,
eds., Racial Liberalism and the Politics of Urban America (East Lansing: Michigan State
University Press, 2003), pp. 11– 50.
- “The Racial Contract: A Discussion” (Lewis R. Gordon, Anthony Bogues, Clinton Hutton,
and Charles W. Mills), Small Axe: A Journal of Criticism, no. 4 (1998): 165– 201.
- “Dialogue: The Racial Contract Today” ( Jack Turner, Desmond Jagmohan, Anna Marie
Smith, Keisha Lindsay, and Charles W. Mills), Politics, Groups, and Identities 3, no. 3
(September 2015): 469– 557.
- Jorge Garcia, “The Racial Contract Hypothesis,” Philosophia Africana: Analysis of
Philosophy and Issues in Africa and the Black Diaspora 4, no. 1 (March 2001): 27– 42.
- Stephen C. Ferguson II, “Racial Contract Theory: A Critical Introduction,” Ph.D. diss.,
University of Kansas, 2004.
- Samuel Freeman, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Rawls (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2003); Jon Mandle and David A. Reidy, eds., A Companion to Rawls
(Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2014).
- Brooke Ackerley et al., “Symposium: John Rawls and the Study of Justice: Legacies of
Inquiry,” Perspectives on Politics 4, no. 1 (March 2006): 75– 133.
- Pateman and Mills, Contract and Domination. Admittedly, a symposium on this book
was organized by the Journal of Political Ideologies 13, no. 3 (October 2008). But given
Pateman’s fame within political theory and her own editorial connection to the journal, I
don’t see this as a real counterexample to my claim.
- For an earlier, more detailed attempt, see Charles W. Mills, “Non- Cartesian
Sums: Philosophy and the African- American Experience” (1994), rpt. in Mills, Blackness
Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998).
- Joyce A. Ladner, ed., The Death of White Sociology: Essays on Race and Culture, with an
afterword by Becky Thompson (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1998; orig. ed. 1973).
- Hobbes himself, of course, does not start out from moral equality but from approximate
physical and mental equality.
- Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge, eds., A Companion to Contemporary
Political Philosophy, 2 vols., 2nd ed. (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007; orig. ed. [1 vol.] 1993).
