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Charles Mills: "There is an opening for a transracial class alliance"

In the latest episode of ourVoices podcast, Charles W. Mills speaks to us about racism, capitalism, and 'the racial contract'.

Charles Mills: "There is an opening for a transracial class alliance"
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Charles W. Mills is a philosophy professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the author of multiple books – most famously 'The Racial Contract', published in 1997.

This conversation, between Charles Mills and ourEconomy’s Europe Editor, Laura Basu, delves into the concepts of racism and capitalism – dissecting the role of the nation-state, and asking what corrective measures are needed to achieve racial justice.

The relationship between racism and capitalism, and how to build a new, reparative economy, are the subject of an upcoming ourVoices documentary-style podcast episode, which asks the question: Is capitalism racist?

The full interview is available below, as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Soundcloud.

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Laura Basu

Laura Basu is openDemocracy's economics editor. She is the author of Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis and co-editor of The Media & Austerity.

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Charles W. Mills

Charles W. Mills is a philosophy professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the author of 'The Racial Contract'.

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