The Racial Contract :: essays research papers

Charles mill The Racial subscribeTheses 8, 9 and 10I.     Thesis 8 The Racial Contract tracts the lesson/political consciousness of (most) colour moral agents (Most controversial chapter)a.     A modify account (actual) will help to lead to a prescription. Based on a racialized moral psychology (p.93) Whites act racist without even realizing it.b.     lots of the chapter is a long explanation of how whites have brutalized nonwhites (pp.98-101). Difference between distrustful and realist. c.     Discussion of the Jewish Holocaust It becomes an outright tragedy only when it is European against European. Quotes Hitler on p.106 d.     Whites who do not go along with the contract Mills argues that there is a choice for whites in the racial contract, albeit it a challenging one - p.107. Going along with things makes us all guilty. On the other hand, if we do not go along, it makes us a "race blabber" (p.108).II.     Thesis 9 The Racial Contract has always been recognized by nonwhites as the real determinant of (most) white moral/political/ approach patterna.     The invisibility of the Racial Contract to whites, and its visibility to nonwhites, p.110.b.     The Racial Contract norms white and nonwhite persons morally, epistemically, and aesthetically (p.118). Given this, what is required for a nonwhite person?c.     First, personal difference for personhood by overcoming the internalization of the racialized norms (pp.118119).d.     Second, cognitive resistance thinking against the grain (pp.119-120).e.     Third, the material aspect of the Racial Contract a politics of the body ( eg., dark is beautiful), p.120.III.     Thesis 10 The Racial Contract as a system is superior to the raceless social contract a.&nbs p    Virtues of the Racial Contract1.     Race should be at the center of contract theory rather than marginalized (p.