Noel Ignatiev, a professor of history, is renowned for his provocative call to abolish the "white race," a concept he defined as "white privilege and race identity." As a co-founder of the New Abolitionist Society and co-editor of Race Traitor, he advocated for the view that racial distinctions and race itself are social constructs. His stance is powerfully encapsulated in his website's motto: "Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity." Ignatiev's work challenges conventional notions of race and calls for a radical reimagining of social structures.
A new collection of essays from the bomb throwing intellectual who described the historical origins and evolution of whiteness and white supremacy - and taught us how we might destroy it
Tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors; how Irish immigrants achieved acceptance among an initially hostile population in America, only by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists.