From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism

by Charles W. Mills

Mills argues for a new critical theory that develops the insights of the black radical political tradition. While challenging conventional interpretations of key Marxist concepts and claims, the author contends that Marxism has been _white_ insofar as it has failed to recognize the centrality of race and white supremacy to the making of the modern world.

Genres: Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Race

308 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Charles W. Mills was a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY. He worked in the general area of social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race. He was the author of over a hundred journal articles, book chapters, comments and replies, and six books. His first book, The Racial Contract (Cornell UP, 1997), won a Myers Outstanding Book Award for the study of bigotry and human rights in America. It has been translated into Korean and Turkish. His second book, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Cornell UP, 1998), was a finalist for the award for the most important North American work in social philosophy of that year.

Mills received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and previously taught at the University of Oklahoma, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Northwestern University. He was the President of the American Philosophical Association Central Division for 2017-18. In 2017, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Reviews

[daniela · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[A YOGAM · Rating 4 out of 5]

Charles W. Mills legt hier den Finger in die Wunde der traditionellen „weißen“ Marxisten und fragt: Warum redet ihr immer nur vom Klassenkampf, wenn der Rassenkampf so viel lauter dröhnt? Diese Aufsätze sind eine schonungslose Offenbarung, denn sie zeigen, dass der Fokus auf die „Klasse“ oft nur eine intellektuelle Ablenkung vom eigentlichen Problem der „Rasse“ war. Ein unverzichtbarer Band, der zeigt: Wer die Welt nur mit einem Schlüssel (der Klasse) zu öffnen versucht, merkt schnell, dass ihm der Schlüssel zur Tür des Radikalismus fehlt.