Separate and Unequal: Hannah Arendt and Little Rock

December 4, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Taper Hall, Room 309K

A book presentation and lecture with David Kim (Professor, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, UCLA)

Organized by the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies
Cosponsored by USC Dornsife Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life and USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

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In this lecture, David Kim will provide an overview of his new book Arendt’s Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World. He will delve into Hannah Arendt’s criticism of the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case and the subsequent interracial conflict in Little Rock, Arkansas. He will discuss her imagination of the American republic and the Constitution and the challenge that she, as a naturalized Jew, had with making sense of slavery in US history.

Refreshments will be provided.

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