Treason to Whiteness Is Loyalty to Humanity
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- Synopsis
- A new collection of essays from the bomb-throwing intellectual who described the historical origins and evolution of whiteness and white supremacy, and taught us how we might destroy it.For sixty years, Noel Ignatiev provided an unflinching account of &“whiteness&”—a social fiction and an unmitigated disaster for all working-class people. 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 Weather Underground and recounts which strategies proved most effective to winning white workers in Gary, Indiana, to black liberation. He discovers the prescient political insights of the nineteenth-century abolition movement, surveys the wreckage of the revolutionary twentieth century with C.L.R. James, and attends to the thorny and contradictory nature of working-class consciousness. Through it all, our attentions are turned to the everyday life of &“ordinary&” people, whose actions anticipate a wholly new society they have not yet recognized or named. In short, Ignatiev reflects on the incisive questions of his time and ours: How can we drive back the forces of racism in society? How can the so-called &“white&” working class be wn over to emancipatory politics? How can we build a new human community?"
- Copyright:
- 2022
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781839765056
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781839765018
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Date of Addition:
- 06/28/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Noel Ignatiev
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Zhandarka Kurti
- Edited by:
- Geert Dhondt
- Edited by:
- Jarrod Shanahan
- Foreword by:
- David R. Roediger
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