ID - 131903794 TI - Hannah Arendt and the Negro question PY - 2014 SN - 9780253011756 9780253011718 9780253011671 0253011752 1306546206 9781306546201 0253011671 025301171X PB - Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Sociology of minorities KW - civil rights KW - Segregation KW - African Americans KW - Civil rights movements KW - History KW - Civil rights KW - Arendt, Hannah, KW - Political and social views. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131903794 AB - "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"-- ER -