
Theorizing Racial Justice
Charles W. Mills(Author)
Elizabeth Anderson(Editor)
Oxford University Press Inc
Will be published approx. on 22. December 2025
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-19-768551-8 (ISBN)
Description
In his last major work, prominent critical race theorist Charles W. Mills offers a searing analysis of the shortcomings of liberal political ideology. With a focus on John Rawls, the pre-eminent liberal political philosopher of the last 50 years, Mills critiques the faults, failures, and inadequacies of liberalism, highlighting its fundamental inability to address white supremacy on a global scale. Along with his intellectual respondents in the volume, Mills asserts the limits of Rawls' class-based principles, particularly within systemically racist societies like the United States, with unprecedented clarity. Through an intersectional exploration of contemporary culture and politics, Mills and the contributors instead emphasize the necessity of a historically corrective racial analysis in the pursuit of true social justice, urging readers to move not only beyond Rawls, but liberalism at large.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
4 b/w figures
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
416 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-768551-8 (9780197685518)
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Charles W. Mills was a Britain-born, Jamaican-raised Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY who earned his Master's and Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. A vanguard philosopher of race, Mills published six books and over 100 articles throughout the course of his multi-decade career. In critique of philosophy's failure to address systemic racism and racial justice at large, Mills notably pioneered a theory of Black radical liberalism.
Volume Editor Elizabeth Anderson is a John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at University of Michigan. She specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and social sciences.
Volume Editor Elizabeth Anderson is a John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at University of Michigan. She specializes in moral, social and political philosophy, feminist theory, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics and social sciences.
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ProfessorProfessor, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan
Content
Introduction: Elizabeth Anderson
Chapter 1: Theorizing Racial Justice: Charles W. Mills
Chapter 2: Ideal Theory and Racial Justice: Samuel Freeman
Chapter 3: Addressing Racial Injustice: Anthony Simon Laden
Chapter 4: Historicizing Racism and Liberalism: Nikhil Pal Singh
Chapter 5: Reflections on Rawls and Racial Justice: Michele Moody-Adams
Chapter 6: Concluding Reflections on Mills, Non-Ideal Theory, and Methods of Political Philosophy: Elizabeth Anderson
Endnotes
Chapter 1: Theorizing Racial Justice: Charles W. Mills
Chapter 2: Ideal Theory and Racial Justice: Samuel Freeman
Chapter 3: Addressing Racial Injustice: Anthony Simon Laden
Chapter 4: Historicizing Racism and Liberalism: Nikhil Pal Singh
Chapter 5: Reflections on Rawls and Racial Justice: Michele Moody-Adams
Chapter 6: Concluding Reflections on Mills, Non-Ideal Theory, and Methods of Political Philosophy: Elizabeth Anderson
Endnotes