Assertion: racial contract | /r/HasProperty | essay
Facets:
value: by the jamaican philosopher
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The Racial Contract is an essay by the Jamaican philosopher Charles W. Mills in which he attempts to show that, although it is conventional to represent the social contract moral and political theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant as neutral with respect to race and ethnicity, in actuality, the philosophers understood them to regulate only relations between whites; in relation to non-whites, these philosophers helped to create a "racial contract," which in both formal and informal ways permitted whites to oppress and exploit non-whites and violate their own moral ideals in dealing with non-whites.