Noel Ignatiev Quotes

1940–2019 United States

Noel Ignatiev (27 December 1940 – 9 November 2019) was an American author and historian. He was most famous for his work on race and social class and for his call to abolish "whiteness" as a social construct.

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Of course we expected bewilderment from people who still think of race as biology.

When Race Becomes Real : Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories (2002)

Our standard response is to draw an analogy with anti-royalism: to oppose monarchy does not mean killing the king; it means getting rid of crowns, thrones, royal titles, etc....

When Race Becomes Real : Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories (2002)

The editors meant it when they replied to a reader, "Make no mistake about it: we intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as 'the white race' is destroyed — not 'deconstructed' but destroyed."

When Race Becomes Real : Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Noel Ignatiev (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.