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Race Thinking and Racism in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism.

In Dan Stone & Richard H. King (eds.), Hannah Arendt and the Uses of History: Imperialism, Nation, Race, and Genocide. Berghahn Books. pp. 38-53 (2007)

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  1. Critic of the Boers or Africans? Arendt's Treatment of South Africa in The Origins of Totalitarianism.Gail Presbey - 1997 - In Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (ed.), Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 162--80.
    Hannah Arendt misrepresented Africans at the same time that she criticized the actions of those who harmed them. Arendt's 1951 work, The Origins of Totalitarianism aimed to show how Hitler's (and Stalin's) practices of totalitarian rule in Europe could be understood in the context of its predecessors, anti-Semitism and imperialism. As a middle stage in her argument, she focussed on the case of the Cape Colony in South Africa. Arendt's study includes: the distinctions she made between colonization and imperialism; her (...)
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