Charles Mills

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Charles Mills is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1985, and taught at the University of Oklahoma previously.

His main research interests are in political theory (radical and oppositional), particularly around issues of social class, gender, and race. He has published numerous articles on Marxism, Critical Race Theory, and African-American philosophy.

He is the author of three books:

The Racial Contract (1997),
Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998)
From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003).

[edit] Criticism

Some in opposition to Mills' opinions have criticized him on his writing (particularly in The Racial Contract), alleging the use of false correlations in order to demonstrate the existence of racism and subjugation. Critics of affirmative action have also criticized him, claiming a misrepresentation of the subjugation of non-whites in the present. Mills' writing style also receives some criticisms.