Charles Mills, 1951-2021: In Memoriam

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¹ Clay Risen, “Charles W. Mills, Philosopher of Race and Liberalism, Dies at 70,” The New York Times, September 27, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/charles-w-mills-dead.html.

² Harrison Smith, “Charles W. Mills, Incisive Philosopher of Liberalism and Race, Dies at 70,” The Washington Post, October 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/charles-w-mills-dead/2021/10/01/6eda0f5e-22c0-11ec-8200-5e3fd4c49f5e_story.html.

³ “Charles Mills Receives the 2021 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award,” Political Science Now, American Political Science Association, https://politicalsciencenow.com/charles-mills-receives-the-2021-benjamin-e-lippincott-award/.

⁴ Justin Weinberg, “Charles Mills, 1951–2021 – Updated,” Daily Nous, September 20, 2021, https://dailynous.com/2021/09/20/charles-mills-1951-2021/.

⁵ Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

⁶ Ibid, 1.

⁷ Mano Sundaresan and Sarah Handel. “Remembering Seminal Philosopher Charles W. Mills,” All Things Considered, NPR, https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040983258/remembering-seminal-philosopher-charles-w-mills.

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Jennifer Leigh Disney

Jennifer Leigh Disney is Professor & Chair of the Department of Political Science and Director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program at Winthrop University. She is a former Co-Chair (2007-2009) of the Caucus for a New Political Science. She is a former Co-Editor (2014-2017) and former Associate Editor (2011-2014) of the journal New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture, as well as a current member of the journal’s Editorial Board (2009-present). Her book, Women’s Activism & Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua was published by Temple University Press in hardback in 2008 and paperback in 2010.