Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Noel Ignatiev

Noel Ignatiev’s Long Fight Against Whiteness

2019-11-22

Noel Ignatiev, the author of “How the Irish Became White,” believed that whiteness was a fiction, and that true stories could dispel it.
Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78

2019-11-12

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. He was 78. The cause was an intestinal infarction, according to Kingsley Clarke, a longtime friend.
How the Irish Became White

2017-03-17

The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country – a land of opportunity – they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of…