This week, my students and I turn toward an essential text in the field’s canon: Charles Mills’s The Racial Contract. We will pair this text with the 1997-1999 debate in ASR between Bonilla-Silva and Loveman over, to borrow from Mills, the social ontology of race.

Today in class, we outlined the ten theses of the racial contract, and mapped the relations between each.

Today in class, we outlined the ten theses of the racial contract, and mapped the relations between each.