In that regard, Mills regards it as largely a fiction that racial
discrimination ended in any meaningful way after the Emancipation
Proclamation; rather, racial prejudice and systematic subjugation continued
overtly well into the 20th century, continuing still today albeit primarily
covertly and unconsciously. Mills characterizes American blacks as having
been granted the permanent status of "outsiders" in American society from
the standpoint of equal rights and their second-class citizenship. For that
matter, Mills also considers the prevailing social contracts to relegate
women to second-class citizenship through the...
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