Noel Ignatiev, a former steelworker who became a historian known for his work on race and class and his call to abolish “whiteness,” died at Banner-University Medical Center Tucson on Saturday ...

Noel Saul Ignatin was born on Dec. 27, 1940, in Philadelphia. (John Ignatiev said the family had changed its last name before his father was born; his father, whose parents were Jewish immigrants ...

Noel Ignatiev, a onetime factory worker who became a Harvard-trained scholar and advocate of eliminating what he considered arbitrary racial classifications and who published an academic journal ...

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.

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.