Treason to Whiteness is loyalty to humanity / Noel Ignatiev ; edited with an introduction by Geert Dhondt, Zhandarka Kurti, and Jarrod Shanahan ; with a foreword by David Roediger ; afterword by John Garvey.

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ignatiev, Noel (Author)
Other Authors: Dhondt, Geert (Editor, Writer of introduction)
Kurti, Zhandarka (Editor, Writer of introduction)
Shanahan, Jarrod (Editor, Writer of introduction)
Roediger, David R. (writer of foreword.)
Garvey, John, 1948- (writer of afterword.)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 2022.
Subjects:
Racism > United States.
Anti-racism > United States.
Social conflict > United States.
Working class > United States > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Social conditions.
Racisme > États-Unis.
Antiracisme > États-Unis.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
HISTORY / United States / General.
Anti-racism.
Race relations.
Racism.
Social conditions.
Social conflict.
Working class > Social conditions.
United States.
Essays.
Genre:
Essays.
Physical Description:xv, 422 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / by David Roediger
  • Introduction: An American revolutionary / by Geer Dhondt, Zhandarka Kurti, and Jarrod Shanahan
  • Passing
  • The POC : a personal memoir
  • In my youth
  • Meeting in Chicago
  • The white blindspot
  • Learn the lessons of US history
  • Organizing workers : lessons for radicals
  • Without a science of navigation,
  • Cannot sail in stormy seas (excerpts)
  • My debt and obligation to Ted Allen
  • Worker, white worker : the Sojourner Truth Organization
  • Theses on white supremacy : expanded remarks
  • No condescending saviors : a study of the experience of revolution in the twentieth century (excerpts)
  • Since when has working been a crime?
  • Are US workers paid above the value of their labor power?
  • Introduction to the Unites States : an autonomist political history
  • The backward workers
  • Influence
  • Abolish the white race
  • by any means necessary
  • The American intifada
  • Immigrants and whites
  • The white worker and the labor movement in nineteenth-century America
  • When does an unreasonable act make sense?
  • Antifascism, anti-racism, and abolition
  • Aux armes! Formez vos bataillons! Until it hurts
  • How the Irish became white (introduction)
  • "The point is not to interpret whiteness but to abolish it"
  • Abolitionism and the white studies racket
  • Reality and the future
  • Abolitionism and the free society
  • American blindspot : Reconstruction according to Eric Foner and W.E.B. Du Bois
  • Whiteness and class struggle
  • "As American as apple pie"
  • "It is all occupied territory"
  • Zionism, anti-Semitism, and the people of Palestine
  • Beyond the spectacle : new abolitionists speak out
  • "The lesson of the hour" : Wendell Phillips on abolition and strategy
  • The world view of C.L.R. James
  • Modern politics
  • Alternative institutions or dual power?
  • Race or class?
  • "Race and occupy" : remarks delivered at Occupy Boston
  • Defining hard crackers
  • Frederick Douglas, John Brown, and the virtues of impracticality
  • Epilogue : my dream
  • Afterword : Noel Ignatiev, an intellectual biography / by John Garvey.