Noel Ignatiev’s radical commitments Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World by Noel Ignatiev. Charles H.…
Noel Ignatiev
Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78
By Seewell ChanLos Angeles TimesNovember 11th, 2019 Noel Ignatiev, a former steelworker who became a historian known for his work…
Noel Ignatiev on ‘Race Traitor,’ White Supremacy, and Abolition on It’s Going Down
It’s Going DownOctober 11th, 2019 In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with Noel Ignatiev, long…
The Point Is Not to Interpret Whiteness but to Abolish It
By Noel Ignatiev Talk given at the Conference “The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness” University of California, Berkeley, April 11-13,…
The Birth of PC
By Noel Ignatiev I think I witnessed the birth of political correctness as a phenomenon. It was in the mid-…
Race and Occupy
Every revolution is a surprise, above all to the revolutionaries. If you had gone around Paris on July 1, 1789…
Poked in the Eye with a Sharp Stick
I loathe public life and politicians. This aversion has not saved me from prolonged brushes with the species, but it…
Unity—At Whose Cost?
By Noel Ignatiev The Palestinian American Women’s Association announced that it would boycott the recent Women’s March in Los Angeles.…
The Revolutionary Moment
By Noel Ignatiev What brings the revolutionary moment? I am not referring to the political struggle that takes place within…
Rainbow Coalition or Class War
By Noel Ignatiev In 1892 Thomas E. Watson ran for Congress on the People’s Party ticket (also known as the…