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Blackness Visible

Essays on Philosophy and Race

By: Charles W. Mills

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Blackness Visible

Essays on Philosophy and Race

By: Charles W. Mills

Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial minorities. Mills points out the absence of any philosophical narrative theorizing and detailing race's centrality to the recent history of the West, such as feminists have articulated for gender domination.European expansionism in its various forms, Mills contends, generates a social ontology of race that warrants philosophical attention.Through expropriation, settlement, slavery, and colonialism, race comes into existence as simultaneously real and unreal: ontological without being biological, metaphysical without being physical, existential without being essential, shaping one's being without being in one's shape.His essays explore the contrasting sums of a white and black modernity, examine standpoint epistemology and the metaphysics of racial identity, look at black-Jewish relations and racial conspiracy theories, map the workings of a white-supremacist polity and the contours of a racist moral consciousness, and analyze the presuppositions of Frederick Douglass's famous July 4 prognosis for black political inclusion. Collectively they demonstrate what exciting new philosophical terrain can be opened up once the color line in western philosophy is made visible and addressed.

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Cornell University Press

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1501702947

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Black Rights/white Wrongs

The Critique of Racial Liberalism

By: Charles Wade Mills

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Black Rights/white Wrongs

The Critique of Racial Liberalism

By: Charles Wade Mills

Liberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons, yet liberalism has denied equality to those it saw as black sub-persons. 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.

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Oxford University Press

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0190245425

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The Racial Contract

By: Charles W. Mills

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The Racial Contract

By: Charles W. Mills

The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state. As this 25th anniversary edition—featuring a foreword by Tommy Shelbie and a new preface by the author—makes clear, the still-urgent The Racial Contract continues to inspire, provoke, and influence thinking about the intersection of the racist underpinnings of political philosophy.

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Cornell University Press

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1501764292

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From Class to Race

Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism

By: Charles Wade Mills

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From Class to Race

Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism

By: Charles Wade Mills

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). 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. By appealing to both mainstream liberal values and the structuralism traditionally associated with the left, Mills asserts that critical race theory can radicalize the mainstream Enlightenment and develop a new kind of contractarianism that deals frontally with race and other forms of social oppression rather than evading them.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742513025

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9780742513020

The Racial Contract

By: Charles Wade Mills

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The Racial Contract

By: Charles Wade Mills

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

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Cornell University Press

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0801434548

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Uniforms of the U.S. Army Ground Forces 1939 1945 Volume 7 Part 1 Miscellaneous Clothing Items; Neckties, Belts & Underwear

By: Charles Lemons

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Uniforms of the U.S. Army Ground Forces 1939 1945 Volume 7 Part 1 Miscellaneous Clothing Items; Neckties, Belts & Underwear

By: Charles Lemons

This is part 1 of volume 7 on the Miscellaneous clothing items worn by the ground troops of the U.S. Army during World War II. It includes a description of each object, how it was issued, who made them, stock number runs and how much they cost at the time. It includes color photographs of the items as well.

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Lulu.com

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1365265315

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Organizing America

Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

By: Charles Perrow

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Organizing America

Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism

By: Charles Perrow

American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations. Over half the working population toils away at enterprises with 500 or more employees--up from zero percent in 1800. Is this institutional immensity the logical outcome of technological forces in an all-efficient market, as some have argued? In this book, the first organizational history of nineteenth-century America, Yale sociologist Charles Perrow says no. He shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. Critics railed against the nationalizing of the economy, against corporations' monopoly powers, political subversion, environmental destruction, and "wage slavery." How did a nation committed to individual freedom, family firms, public goods, and decentralized power become transformed in one century? Bountiful resources, a mass market, and the industrial revolution gave entrepreneurs broad scope. In Europe, the state and the church kept private organizations small and required consideration of the public good. In America, the courts and business-steeped legislators removed regulatory constraints over the century, centralizing industry and privatizing the railroads. Despite resistance, the corporate form became the model for the next century. Bureaucratic structure spread to government and the nonprofits. Writing in the tradition of Max Weber, Perrow concludes that the driving force of our history is not technology, politics, or culture, but large, bureaucratic organizations. Perrow, the author of award-winning books on organizations, employs his witty, trenchant, and graceful style here to maximum effect. Colorful vignettes abound: today's headlines echo past battles for unchecked organizational freedom; socially responsible alternatives that were tried are explored along with the historical contingencies that sent us down one road rather than another. No other book takes the role of organizations in America's development as seriously. The resultant insights presage a new historical genre.

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Princeton University Press

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1400825083

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Ocean Energy

Tide and Tidal Power

By: R. H. Charlier,Charles W. Finkl

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Ocean Energy

Tide and Tidal Power

By: R. H. Charlier,Charles W. Finkl

Engineers’ dreams and fossil energy replacement schemes can come true. Man has been tapping the energy of the sea to provide power for his industries for centuries. Tidal energy combined with that of waves and marine winds rank among those most successfully put the work. Large scale plants are capital intensive but smaller ones, particularly built in China, have proven profitable. Since the initiation of the St Malo project in France, similar projects have gone into active service where methods have been devised to cut down on costs, new types of turbines developed and cost competitiveness considerably improved. Tidal power has enormous potential. The book reviews recent progress in extracting power from the ocean, surveys the history of tidal power harnessing and updates a prior publication by the author.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540779329

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9783540779322

Language of the Robe

American Indian Trade Blankets

By: Robert W. Kapoun,Charles J. Lohrmann

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Language of the Robe

American Indian Trade Blankets

By: Robert W. Kapoun,Charles J. Lohrmann

From the history of the trade blanket to contemporary collectible blankets to designs of the major trade blanket manufacturers such as Pendleton Woolen Mills, Racine Woolen Mills, and Buell Manufacturing Company, Language of the Robe presents the bright colors and intricately woven patterns hallmark to American Indian trade blankets.

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Gibbs Smith

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1423600169

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Charles Dickens' Most Influential Works (Illustrated)

Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

By: Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens' Most Influential Works (Illustrated)

Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens

By: Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend - explores the conflict between doing what society expects of a person and the idea of being true to oneself The Pickwick Papers - To extend his researches into the quaint and curious phenomena of life, Samuel Pickwick suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members. Oliver Twist is an orphan who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin… A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. David Copperfield is a fatherless boy who is sent to lodge with his housekeeper's family after his mother remarries, but when his mother dies he decides to run away… Hard Times is set in the fictional city of Coketown and it is centered around utilitarian and industrial influences on Victorian society. A Tale of Two Cities depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. Great Expectations depicts the personal growth and development of an orphan nicknamed Pip in Kent and London in the early to mid-19th century. Bleak House – legal thriller based on true events. Little Dorrit – criticize the institution of debtors' prisons, the shortcomings of both government and society. COLLECTED LETTERS THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS by John Forster

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8027225086

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Book's by Charles Mills

Blackness Visible

Blackness Visible

Black Rights/white Wrongs

Black Rights/white Wrongs

The Racial Contract

The Racial Contract

From Class to Race

From Class to Race

The Racial Contract

The Racial Contract

Uniforms of the U.S. Army Ground Forces 1939 1945 Volume 7 Part 1 Miscellaneous Clothing Items; Neckties, Belts & Underwear

Uniforms of the U.S. Army Ground Forces 1939 1945 Volume 7 Part 1 Miscellaneous Clothing Items; Neckties, Belts & Underwear

Organizing America

Organizing America

Ocean Energy

Ocean Energy

Language of the Robe

Language of the Robe

Charles Dickens' Most Influential Works (Illustrated)

Charles Dickens' Most Influential Works (Illustrated)

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