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The racial contract has to be enforced through violence and ideological conditioning 3. With a sweeping look at the european expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, charles w. Mills in which he attempts to show that, although it is conventional to represent the. Carole pateman and charles millss earlier books, the sexualcontract 1988 and the racial contract 1997, offereddevastating critiques of gender and racial domination and thecontemporary contract traditions silence on mehr. The racial contract historically tracks the actual moral\political consciousness of most white moral agents. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged contract has shaped a system of global european domination. From slavery, colonialization, imperialism and apartheid, mills provides an overview of the on going racial oppression suffered by the majority of the worlds population via the racial contract. The racial contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state. Contract and domination carole pateman, charles wade mills. The racial contract is an essay by the jamaican philosopher charles w. But gender justice is neglected and racial justice almost completely ignored. The racial contract university of wisconsin pressbooks. The racial contract is political, moral and epistemological.