Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780253011718
Subjects: Arendt, hannah, 1906-1975; Segregation; African americans, civil rights; Civil rights movements, united states
Description: "While acknowledging Hannah Arendt's keen philosophical and political insights, Kathryn T. Gines claims that there are some problematic assertions and oversights regarding Arendt's treatment of the "Negro question." Gines focuses on Arendt's reaction to the desegregation of Little Rock schools, to laws making mixed marriages illegal, and to the growing civil rights movement in the South. Reading them alongside Arendt's writings on revolution, the human condition, violence, and responses to the Eichmann war crimes trial, Gines provides a systematic analysis of anti-black racism in Arendt's work"--