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   Noel Ignatiev (1940–2019) was an author, historian, and race theorist. He   
   was best known for his theories on race and for his call to abolish   
   "whiteness". Ignatiev was the co-founder of the New Abolitionist Society and   
   co-editor of the journal Race    
   Traitor, which promoted the idea that "treason to whiteness is loyalty to   
   humanity". In 1995 he published the book, How the Irish Became White, an   
   examination of the choices made by early Irish Immigrants to the United   
   States, many of whom, when faced    
   with xenophobia and a history of being oppressed themselves, proceeded to take   
   the opportunity to increase their power in society by identifying as "white"   
   and participating in oppressing darker-skinned peoples.   
      
   Ignatiev was born Noel Saul Ignatin in Philadelphia, the son of Carrie, a   
   homemaker, and Irv Ignatin, who delivered newspapers. His family's original   
   surname, Ignatiev, was changed to Ignatin and later back to the original   
   spelling. His family was Jewish.   
    His grandparents were from Russia. Ignatiev's parents later ran a housewares   
   store. He attended the Univ. of Pennsylvania, but dropped out after 3 years.   
      
   Under the name Noel Ignatin, he joined the Communist Party USA in Jan. 1958,   
   but in August left (along with Theodore W. Allen and Harry Haywood) to help   
   form the Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Ma   
   xist–Leninist Communist Party (POC)   
   . He was expelled from the POC in 1966.   
      
   He later became involved in the Students for a Democratic Society. When that   
   organization fractured in the late 1960s, Ignatiev became part of the group   
   Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) in 1970. Unlike other groups in the New   
   Communist movement, the    
   STO and Ignatiev were also heavily influenced by the ideas of Trinidadian   
   writer C.L.R. James.   
      
   For 20 years, Ignatiev worked in a Gary, Indiana steel mill and also in the   
   manufacturing of farming equipment and electrical components. A Marxist   
   activist, he was involved in efforts by African American steel workers to   
   achieve equality in the mills.    
   In 1984, he was laid off from the steel mill, approximately a year after an   
   arrest on charges of attacking a strike-breaker's car with a paint bomb.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev   
      
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