Racism in the theory canon: Hannah Arendt and 'the one great crime in which America was never involved'

Hannah Arendt’s monumental study The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951, is a founding text in postcolonial studies, locating the seeds of European fascism in the racism of imperial expansion. However, Arendt also harboured deep racial prejudices, especially when writing about people of A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owens, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2017