In his book Black Rights / White Wrongs, philosopher Charles W. Mills critiques the underlying assumptions of Rawls’s work as inherently white, and thus subject to glaring blind spots. Mills sets “the white fantasy world of Rawlsianism” and its convenient “ideal theory” against the actual history of racialized oppression in the modern era, and proposes that non-ideal theory is critical in addressing racial inequality and possible remediations. “Here is a huge body of work," Mills writes of Rawls's writings , "focused on questions of social justice – seemingly the natural place to look for guidance on normative issues related to race – which has nothing to say about racial justice, the distinctive injustice of the modern world.”Mills, Black Rights / White Wrongs, p. 139 Mills documents a “pattern of silence” in Rawls’s work, and, through the lens of Critical Race Theory, situates that within a broader tradition of white political philosophers either being explicitly racist, or ignoring race in discussions of justice.
In his book Black Rights / White Wrongs, philosopher Charles W. Mills critiques the underlying assumptions of Rawls’s work as inherently white, and thus subject to glaring blind spots. Mills sets “the white fantasy world of Rawlsianism” and its “ideal theory” against the actual history of racialized oppression in the modern era, and proposes that non-ideal theory is urgently needed to address racial inequality and possible remediations. “Here is a huge body of work," Mills writes on Rawls's output , "focused on questions of social justice – seemingly the natural place to look for guidance on normative issues related to race – which has nothing to say about racial justice, the distinctive injustice of the modern world.”Mills, Black Rights / White Wrongs, p. 139 Mills documents a “pattern of silence” in Rawls’s work, and, through the lens of Critical Race Theory, situates that within a broader tradition of white political philosophers either being explicitly racist, or ignoring race in discussions of justice.
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