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I remember going out to dinner with Charles after a Wednesday colloquium talk at the Graduate Center and being extremely impressed by his warmth and friendliness and generosity, even though I had never taken a class with him and did not work in his area of philosophy at all (though I had read some of his work, and always teach his excellent вЂBut What Are You Really?вЂ™ when I do philosophy of race in introductory classes). The memorial will be recorded and will be made available for sharing at its conclusion. You can learn more about it and register to speak at it here. MillsвЂќ this Thursday, organized by philosophers Leigh Johnson and Kris Sealy.

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UPDATE 2:В There will be an online memorial event вЂњto give space for a remembrance and celebration of the life of Charles W.

An appreciation of Mills by Matthew J.

Robert Paul Wolff on Mills on Lord of the Rings.

Memorial Notice for Mills from the American Philosophical Association.

Memorial Notices, Obituaries, and Remembrances Elsewhere:

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UPDATE:В This beautiful tribute to Mills by Liam Kofi Bright (LSE) discusses the importance of MillsвЂ™ work in philosophy, his professional generosity, and his capacity for being serious without being somber-вЂњto laugh rather than cry in the face of the slings and arrows of outrageous historical fortune.вЂќ Professor Mills died on the evening of Monday, September 20th.Д«elow is a video of Professor Mills giving the 2020 Tanner Lecture on Human Values, on вЂњthe issue of racial justiceвЂ¦ and why the subject has been so little addressed in Western, and more specifically, American, political philosophy.вЂќ He was honored by the profession, particularly over the past dozen years, in various ways, including being elected to the presidency of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association (APA), being selected to give the APAвЂ™s John Dewey Lectureship, becoming a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and delivering the 2020 Tanner Lecture on Human Values at the University of Michigan. He earned his hisВ Ph.D.В from theВ University of Toronto and his undergraduate degree from the University of the West Indies. Earlier appointments were at the University of Oklahoma, the University of Toronto, Campion College and the College of Arts and Sciences in Kingston, Jamaica (as a physics lecturer). Prior to that, he spent a decade on the faculty at Northwestern University (2007-2016) and before that, 17 years at the University of Illinois, Chicago (1990-2007). Mills was appointed professor of philosophy at CUNY in 2016.

You can learn more about his writings here and here. He is the author of over 100 journal articles, chapters, and commentaries, as well as six books: The Racial Contract, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race, From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism, Contract and Domination (co-authored with Carole Pateman), Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality, and Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism. Professor Mills was well known for his work in social and political philosophy, African-American and Africana philosophy, critical philosophy of race, ethics, and Marxist thought. Mills, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), has died.