--- title: "2 Charles W. Mills Quotes - Famous Philosopher" description: "Jamaican-American academic philosopher (1951–2021)... | Charles Wade Mills was a Caribbean-American philosopher who specialized in political philosophy...." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/charles-w-mills-105004_black-consciousness_the-white-delusion-of-racial-superiority_600626.jpg" --- # Charles W. Mills (1951–2021) Philosopher **2** quotes in **10** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Charles W. Mills was a philosopher. ## Quick Facts About Charles W. Mills Born January 3, 1951 Died September 20, 2021 Profession Philosopher ## About Charles W. Mills Jamaican-American academic philosopher (1951–2021)... \| Charles Wade Mills was a Caribbean-American philosopher who specialized in political philosophy. Mills was a professor at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), and Northwestern University. He made major contributions to critical race theory, most notably with his book The Ra ## Quotes by Charles W. Mills > [“The white delusion of racial superiority insulates itself against refutation. Correspondingly, on the positive epistemic side, the route to black knowledge is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-w-mills/the-white-delusion-of-racial-superiority-insulates-itself-against/) Charles W. Mills [Black consciousness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/black-consciousness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/charles-w-mills-105004_black-consciousness_the-white-delusion-of-racial-superiority_600626.jpg) > [“For what people of color quickly come to see—in a sense the primary epistemic principle of the racialized social epistemology of which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-w-mills/for-what-people-of-color-quickly-come-to-see-in-a-sense-the-primary/) Charles W. Mills [White people](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/white-people/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/092/charles-w-mills-105004_white-people_for-what-people-of-color-quickly-come-to_1295364.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-w-mills/#itemlist", "name": "Charles W. Mills Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The white delusion of racial superiority insulates itself against refutation. Correspondingly, on the positive epistemic side, the route to black knowledge is the self-conscious recognition of white ignorance (including its blackfaced manifestation in black consciousness itself). Du Bois prescribes a critical cognitive distancing from “a world which yields [the Negro] no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world,” a “sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others.”27 The attainment of “second sight” requires an understanding of what it is about whites and the white situation that motivates them to view blacks erroneously. One learns in part to see through identifying white blindness and avoiding the pitfalls of putting on these spectacles for one’s own vision.28 So”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles W. 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Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk is the image of the “veil,”20 and the black American cognitive equivalent of the shocking moment of Cartesian realization of the uncertainty of everything one had taken to be knowledge is the moment when for Du Bois, as a child in New England, “it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their [white] world by a vast veil.”21 Similarly, Ralph Ellison’s classic Invisible Man, generally regarded as the most important twentieth-century novel of the black experience, is arguably in key respects—while a multi-dimensional and multi-layered work of great depth and complexity, not to be reduced to a single theme—an epistemological novel.22 For what it recounts is the protagonist’s quest to determine what norms of belief are the right ones in a crazy looking-glass world where he is an invisible man “simply because [white] people refuse to see me… . When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me.” And this systematic misperception is not, of course, due to biology, the intrinsic properties of his epidermis, or physical deficiencies in the white eye, but rather to “the construction of their inner eyes, those eyes with which they look through their physical eyes upon reality.”23”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles W. 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