Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism

by Charles W. Mills

Book Overview

Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has refused equality to those it saw as sub-persons. Liberalism is the creed of fairness - yet liberalism has been complicit with European imperialism and African slavery. Liberalism is the classic ideology of Enlightenment and political transparency - yet liberalism has cast a dark veil over its actual racist past and present. In sum, liberalism's promise of equal rights has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190245425
• ISBN13: 9780190245429
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"