{"id":94,"date":"2021-09-20T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/?p=94"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:59:12","slug":"test-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Unmasking the racial contract endorsed by Distinguished Professor Charles W. Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles W. Mills\u00a0was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, in New York City. Mills endorsement of my book <em>Unmasking the racial contract <\/em>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\u00a0<em>The Racial Contract\u00a0<\/em>(1997), won a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for the study of bigotry and human rights in America. Charles W. Mills&#8217; endorsement reads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Despite a history of conquest, genocide, and expropriation, to say nothing of a multi-decade official \u201cWhite Australia\u201d 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 \u201cdiversity\u201d and \u201cculture.\u201d This courageous and hard-hitting text by Indigenous scholar Debbie Bargallie reveals the ugly truth of systemic racial exclusion behind the liberal fa\u00e7ade\u2014a lesson not merely in the workings of the Australian Public Service specifically but for the country far more broadly.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles W. Mills\u00a0was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, in New York City. Mills endorsement of my book&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/?p=94\">More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unmasking the racial contract endorsed by Distinguished Professor Charles W. Mills<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-critical-race-theory","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Charles-W.-Mills.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debbiebargallie.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}