Join us for the book release of Noel Ignatiev’s Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity with codeditor Geert Dhondt and Noel’s long time collaborator John Garvey.

Noel Ignatiev, the author of How the Irish Became White, was an uncompromising revolutionary who for over sixty years provided an unflinching account of “whiteness”—a social fiction and an unmitigated disaster for those who want freedom and a new society. As Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes, “This collection of Noel Ignatiev’s writings over the past six decades could not come at a more important time in the struggle against white supremacy; they are as pertinent today as they were when they were written.”

“This book is the gift of a life well-lived—as steelworker, scholar, race traitor, and fierce anti-racist. Noel Ignatiev had a singular and memorable voice, here preserved for posterity. We will need his ideas and example moving forward.”—Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History

“Noel Ignatiev was a giant in one of the most important fields of research to emerge in recent times: how was it that those who had been warring on the shores of Europe on religious and ethnic grounds were magically transformed upon crossing the Atlantic into the new Identity Politics of ‘whiteness’? As the brilliant Ignatiev correctly suggests, the survival of humanity may very well hang on understanding this phenomenon—then acting decisively.”—Gerald Horne, author of White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism and Anti-Communism versus the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela

“Noel Ignatiev was a tiller in the field of identity studies long before most of us even knew there was such a field. Beyond that, he located the field at the crossroads of race and class. He was an important, innovative thinker, as well as a committed activist for social justice.”—Russel Banks, author of Continental Drift and Cloudsplitter

A memorial of Noel Ignatiev from the New Yorker