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Why Is Charles W. Mills Influential?

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Charles Mills was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center City University of New York, as well as a critically acclaimed philosopher on race. He earned his B.Sc. in physics from the University of the West Indies and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.

As the author of one of the most widely adopted texts on bigotry and human rights, Charles Mills is considered a foremost authority on social and political philosophy as they pertain to race. The aforementioned text, The Racial Contract, was awarded the Gustuvus Myers Outstanding Book Award. He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2017. He is also the author of Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race, From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism, and Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination. His most recent book, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism, was published in 2017.

Mills published numerous articles on topics ranging from African American philosophy to Marxism. His most recent article, “The Racial Contract revisited: still unbroken after all these years,” was published in Politics, Groups, and Identities in 2015. Mills’ scholarly works have advanced our understanding of critical race theory.

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Wade Mills was a philosopher who was a professor at Graduate Center, CUNY, and Northwestern University. Born in London, Mills grew up in Jamaica and later became a United States citizen. He was educated at the University of the West Indies and the University of Toronto.

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Charles W. Mills's Published Works

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Published Papers

The Racial Contract (2022) (920)
“Ideal Theory” as Ideology (2005) (549)
Contract and Domination (2007) (269)
Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (2003) (81)
White supremacy as sociopolitical system: A philosophical perspective (2013) (43)
Kant and Race, Redux (2014) (36)
RACIAL EXPLOITATION AND THE WAGES OF WHITENESS (2004) (32)
The chronopolitics of racial time (2020) (24)
Retrieving Rawls for Racial Justice?: A Critique of Tommie Shelby (2013) (23)
Black Radical Kantianism (2018) (23)
DO BLACK MEN HAVE A MORAL DUTY TO MARRY BLACK WOMEN (1994) (22)
An Illuminating Blackness (2013) (20)
Non-Cartesian Sums: Philosophy and the African-American Experience (1994) (19)
Critical Philosophy of Race (2016) (17)
The racial state (2020) (17)
Retrieving Rawls for Racial Justice (2013) (15)
Simianization: Apes, Gender, Class, and Race (2016) (14)
The Racial Polity (1999) (13)
Liberalism and the Racial State (2011) (8)
RACIAL JUSTICE (2018) (8)
"Ideal Theory" as Ideology (2005) (8)
'Ideology' in Marx and Engels (1985) (8)
Race and Class: Conflicting or Reconcilable Paradigms? (1987) (7)
Stuart Hall's Changing Representations of 'Race' (2007) (7)
Reconceptualizing Race and Racism? A Critique of J. Angelo Corlett (2005) (6)
Philosophy : the big questions (2004) (6)
Unwriting and unwhitening the world (2014) (6)
The Racial Contract as Methodology (Not Hypothesis) (2002) (6)
Body Politic, Bodies Impolitic (2011) (5)
Dark Ontologies: Blacks, Jews, and White Supremacy (1998) (5)
8. Whose Fourth Of July? Frederick Douglass and "Original Intent" (2018) (5)
11. Criticizing Critical Theory (2017) (5)
A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois (2018) (5)
Philosophy raced, philosophy erased (2012) (4)
Righting racial wrongs: a reply to my commentators (2018) (4)
Contract Theory and Global Change: The Intersections of Gender, Race and Class (2011) (3)
Realizing (Through Racializing) Pogge (2010) (3)
Defending the Radical Enlightenment (2002) (3)
Marxism, ‘Ideology,’ and Moral Objectivism1 (1994) (3)
Modernity, Persons, and Subpersons (2006) (3)
"Ideology" in Marx and Engels' Revisited and Revised (1992) (2)
The Whiteness of Political Philosophy (2017) (2)
Theorizing White Racial Domination and Racial Justice: A Reply to Christopher Lebron (2019) (2)
Marxism and Caribbean Development: A Contribution to Rethinking (1991) (2)
Racial Rights and Wrongs: A Critique of Derrick Darby (2015) (2)
A New Old Meaning of “Ideology” (1989) (2)
Philosophy and the Racial Contract (2017) (2)
Red Shift: Politically Embodied/Embodied Politics (2002) (2)
White Supremacy and Racial Justice, Here and Now (2001) (1)
Rawls on Race (2006) (1)
Responses to James Tully’s “Deparochializing Political Theory and Beyond” (2017) (1)
Prophetic Pragmatism as Political Philosophy (2001) (1)
Ideology and Social Cognition: The Challenge of Theorizing ‘Speciesism’ (2019) (1)
7.White Right The Idea of a Herrenvolk Ethics (2018) (1)
Ethics along the Color Line (review) (2007) (1)
Rethinking Philosophy and Race: An Interview With Charles Mills (2015) (1)
Reply to Nancy Holmstrom and Richard Schmitt (2012) (0)
Blacker Than Noir (2012) (0)
Philosophies/Philosophy?: An African-American Perspective (2003) (0)
The ‘White’ Problem (2021) (0)
Carnal Knowledges: Beyond Rawls and Sandel (1997) (0)
Economic Democracy and Market Socialism (1995) (0)
W. E. B. Du Bois: Black Radical Liberal (2018) (0)
The Intervention in 'Common Sense' (1987) (0)
Race as/and (Ex)change: Trading places and the rise of neoliberalism (2013) (0)
Rethinking Philosophy and Race (2015) (0)
Book Review:Ethics along the Color Lineby Anna Stubblefield (2007) (0)
Epilogue (as Prologue): Toward a Black Radical Liberalism (2017) (0)
The Moral Epistemology of Stalinism (1994) (0)
List of Referees (2005) (0)
The Illumination of Blackness (2021) (0)
Chapter 16. White Supremacy (2007) (0)
Tradução (2021) (0)
A Reply to My Critics (1994) (0)
Contract and Domination: A Collaborative Debate about Social Contract Theory (2005) (0)
Blacks and Social Justice: A Quarter‐Century Later (2010) (0)
Anna Stubblefield Ethics along the Color Line. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2005. (2007) (0)
Tp [\ Canadian (Q\ JJJournal of£| Philosophy (1989) (0)

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