Charles Mills Interviewed by George Yancy

New York Times Opinionator

George Yancy: You are a philosopher who thinks very deeply about issues of race. Can you provide a sense of your work?

Charles Mills: I think a simple way to sum it up would be as the transition from white Marxism to (what I have recently started calling) black radical liberalism.

G.Y.: So, how does “white” modify Marxism? And what is it about the modification that helps to account for the transition to what you’re now calling black radical liberalism?

Charles W. Mills Lecture at Wits: ‘Liberalizing Illiberal Liberalism’

Department of Political Studies

Public Lecture

Professor Charles W. Mills

‘Liberalizing Illiberal Liberalism’

Chair: Professor Lawrence Hamilton

Venue: The Senate Room

Second Floor, Senate House

Date: Thursday 21 August 2014

Time: 5:30 pm

(Refreshments will be served)

Please RSVP to Gillian.renshaw@wits.ac.za for catering purposes

Critical Philosophies of Race: Charles Mills & Sally Kitch at WITS

Charles Mills - Liberalism and Racial Justice

Racism and the Political Economy of Domination

Charles W. Mills interviewed by Tom Mills, New Left Project

Charles W. Mills is John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University.  He is the author of The Racial Contract and has written extensively about racism and political theory.  In an interview with Tom Mills he discussed his views on race, liberalism, capitalism and the potential for social change.

The concept of race as an objective category has long been discredited by anthropology and biology, yet the social sciences show that racial disadvantage persists. How do you understand the concept of race and racism?

Charles W. Mills - The Racist Roots of Liberalism