Your paper should be cohesive and well-structured. Define your terms, develop your claims logically, and support your essay with evidence from readings and class discussions. Use direct quotations judiciously avoid block quotes and interpret what you do include.
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?
These are your sources for the paper. The links are provided below. The paper should be written based on them. You can choose which one of the Locke sources you would like to incorporate into the writing.
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
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