Argues that racially structured discrimination is the norm by using social contract theory.

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use.

In Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism, political philosopher Charles Mills challenges mainstream accounts that ignore this history and its current legacy in the United States today.

In From Class to Race, Charles Mills maps the theoretical route that brought him to the innovative conceptual framework outlined in his academic bestseller The Racial Contract (1997).

Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience.

This iconoclastic book throws the gauntlet down to mainstream white male contract theory. It is vital reading for anyone with an interest in political theory and political philosophy, and the systems of male and racial domination.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.