Politics Noel Ignatiev Understood White Privilege and White Supremacy—and How to Destroy Them The historian, who died this month, spent a lifetime showing how racism reproduces itself.

Noel Ignatiev, a onetime factory ... “There is youth culture and drug culture and queer culture; but there is no such thing as white culture,” Dr. Ignatiev said in 1997.

Noel Ignatiev, a provocative scholar who argued that the idea of a white race is a false construct that society would be better off without, died on Nov. 9in Tucson, Ariz., where he was visiting a ...

Noel Ignatiev, the author of “How the Irish Became White,” believed that whiteness was a fiction, and that true stories could dispel it. Photograph by Pekah Pamella Wallace ...

Noel Ignatiev, a historian who wrote “How the Irish Became White” and co-edited the journal Race Traitor, dies at 78.

Noel Ignatiev, whose classic monograph How the Irish Became White and an anthology co-edited with John Garvey, Race Traitor, belong on every shelf in Trumpland, passed away on November 9, 2019.

And white folks faced the possibility of how they would live without the special protections of the white skin, ... Noel Ignatiev Writer and Historian Du Bois Institute, Harvard University ...

I didn’t like the book How the Irish Became White, by the late Noel Ignatiev.I still don’t understand how he took arguably the second-most-despised and discriminated group (behind Black people ...

Dr. Ignatiev, who formerly lived in Somerville and Dorchester, was also a force behind a group, founded in New York City more than two decades ago, that advocated for abolishing white supremacy.

Noel Ignatiev’s 1995 book “How the Irish Became White” was influential and controversial, touching off a firestorm of debate. Los Angeles Times ...