Charles W. Mills (1951 - 2021) was considered by many to be the most well-known philosopher specializing in political philosophy and critical philosophy of race. This is the first collection of essays to critically examine the key themes of Mills's philosophy across his major works.

Foreword George Yancy Introduction Mark William Westmoreland 1. Diagnosing White Aphasia: Mills and Domination Contract Mark William Westmoreland 2. Curdled Contracts: Mills and Decolonial Feminism Taylor Rogers 3. Corresponding Contracts: The Intersectional Mills Corey Reed 4. Toward the Bourgeois Revolution: Situating Mills's Liberal Turn Rafael Vizcaíno 5. Mills on Class in Relation to Race Lawrence Blum 6. Mills, Contracts, and the Limits of Liberalism Clevis Headley 7. A Page of History: Mills's Black Radical Kantianism and American Legal (Racial) Realism Timothy J. Golden 8. Building (Conceptual) Bridges: Mills's Non-ideal Theory and Disciplinary Whitopias Emmalon Davis

Mark William Westmoreland, PhD, teaches philosophy at Ocean County College. He is the co-editor (with Andrea J. Pitts) of Beyond Bergson: Examining Race and Colonialism through the Writings of Henri Bergson (SUNY) and author of "Bergson, Colonialism, and Race" in Interpreting Bergson (Cambridge) and other essays on race and pedagogy.