The Racial Contract Analysis

This class has helped me by equipping me to deal with the pressing political issues of today in many ways. Reading The Racial Contract and The Sexual Contract helped me understand why there can be such racial tension and sexual discrimination around the world, and social contract theorists like Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau helped with understanding why societies were formed containing these issues. Taking the views and writings of Carole Pateman, we can relate them to the serious problems we see on a global scale concerning women. For example, we can look at the epidemic of infanticide in India and China, where boys are the preferred gender, and girls will end up being killed to take the burden off their parents as they grow. Before taking this course and reading The Sexual Contract, I was aware of the

European people, according to Charles Mills, feel a sense of entitlement over those of other races, because of the European dominance of other countries. During the terror attacks and political issues as of late, this sense of entitlement and domination has become more and more visible, even though this kind of discrimination is something I thought America as a whole had moved past. Recently, Donald Trump propositioned to make all Muslims have a special I.D., and any non-American born Muslims would not be able to travel into the United States. Much to my surprise, many people support this idea from Trump, even though it is blatantly discriminatory on Muslims. Now that I have read The Racial Contract and learned why there are people that feel as though this discrimination towards Muslims is acceptable, although I do not agree with it at all. Hopefully we reach a point in our society where this discrimination won’t exist, although Charles Mills claims that there will always be a subordinate and dominant