For sixty years Noel Ignatiev provided an unflinching account of 'whiteness'-a social fiction that has for centuries been an unmitigated disaster for all working class people, including the white ones. This new essay collection from the late firebrand covers the breadth of his life and insights as an autodidact steel worker, a groundbreaking theoretician, and a bitter enemy of racists everywhere. In these essays, Ignatiev confronts the explosive guilt trips of the Weather Underground and recounts which kind of strategies proved most effective to winning white workers in Gary, Indiana to...
For sixty years Noel Ignatiev provided an unflinching account of 'whiteness'-a social fiction that has for centuries been an unmitigated disaster for ...