Society And The Individual.

How does Mills understand the Racial Contract as "an agreement to misinterpret the world" (18)? Why does Mills claim that “white signatories will live in an invented delusional world, a racial fantasyland” (18)? And how, according to Mills, does an analysis of the non-ideal Racial Contract enable people to better understand, and therefore potentially change, the structure of racial oppression? In answering these questions, consider Mills's claim that white "evasion" and "self-deception" (19) are integral to the maintenance of power -- why might it be tempting for those in power to be ignorant of, or blind to, the workings of that power?