# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-w-mills
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:31:38.420Z

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name: "Charles W. Mills"
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description: "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 Racial Contract (1997). Born in London, Mills grew up in Jamaica and later became a United States citizen. He was educated at the University of the West Indies where he received his bachelor's degree in physics, and the University of Toronto where he went on to get his master's and doctoral degrees in philosophy."
tagline: "Jamaican-American academic philosopher (1951–2021)"
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birthDate: "1951-01-03"
deathDate: "2021-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump