Ainsley LeSure: The Negro Question in Arendt's "Reflections on Little Rock"
Dr. Ainsley LeSure (Brown University) talks about racism, white mob and the Negro Question in Arendt’s “Reflections on Little Rock” in a conversation with Ludmila Franca-Lipke and Tatiana Vargas-Maia
This conversation with Dr. Ainsley LeSure (Brown University) about Arendt’s “Reflections on Little Rock” was originally broadcasted live on January 19th 2021 on YouTube.com/viamarginal and Facebook.com/viamarginalpod
In this talk, Ludmila Franca-Lipke and Tatiana Vargas Maia interviews Dr. LeSure on her article "The White Mob, (In)Equality Before the Law, and Racial Common Sense: a Critical Race Reading of the Negro Question in 'Reflections on Little Rock', published on July, 2020.
Ainsley LeSure (Ph.D., University of Chicago, Political Science, 2015) is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, specialist in political theory with a particular focus on the critical theory of race and racism, social justice, democratic theory, Black political thought and feminist theory.
We thank Dr. LeSure for her brilliant explanations and powerful insights on racism, white mob and the racial question in Hannah Arendt’s work. A refreshing interpretation of Arendt’s ideas, with accuracy and intelectual honesty.
Dr. LeSure’s article “The White Mob, (In) Equality Before the Law, and Racial Common Sense: A Critical Race Reading of the Negro Question in ‘Reflections on Little Rock’” referred on this talk is available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0090591720943211
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