Option 2: What does Charles Mills mean by the Racial Contract, and who are its signatories? How does the Contract function, politically, morally, and epistemologically? Explain these functions analytically and use the examples Mills provides to illustrate them. In your explanation, discuss how Mills both draws on and departs from Marxs form of critique. Given the logic of the Racial Contract, why are race-neutral or colorblind attempts to address racial domination are inadequate, and what does Mills, borrowing Lockean conceptualizations of consent, suggest instead?
Charles Mills , The Racial Contract
introduction/Part 1 (pp.9-39), part 2 and 3 (pp. 41-133)
https://abolitionjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Mills-racial-contracxt.pdf
John Locke, Two treaties of government
Ch. 1-8 and Ch. 17-19
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/7370-h/7370-h.htm
John Locke, Declaration of independence