Charles W. Mills was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, in New York City. Mills endorsement of my book Unmasking the racial contract in 2020 was a very special honour. Mills sadly passed away on 20 September, 2021. He was a Jamaican philosopher who was born in London, grew up in Jamaica and later became a citizen of the United States of America. Mills is an internationally acclaimed social and political philosopher whose intellectual political theorising centering race influenced much of my book. His book The Racial Contract (1997), won a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for the study of bigotry and human rights in America. Charles W. Mills’ endorsement reads:
Despite a history of conquest, genocide, and expropriation, to say nothing of a multi-decade official “White Australia” immigration policy, mainstream Australian discourse and scholarship still prefers to conceal the central reality of white racial domination with the evasive and obfuscatory categories of “diversity” and “culture.” This courageous and hard-hitting text by Indigenous scholar Debbie Bargallie reveals the ugly truth of systemic racial exclusion behind the liberal façade—a lesson not merely in the workings of the Australian Public Service specifically but for the country far more broadly.