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...father, against the wishes of her family. Perhaps it was the feat of giving birth to two brown children, quite a deed, given this country’s paradoxical one-drop rule that holds a black woman can never give birth to a white child, as historian Noel Ignatiev points out. (But he also calls for the “abolition” of the white race—of its privilege, of its label; not of its members. Still, maybe we should take his words with a grain of salt, yes?)Ultimately, my newfound discovery eluded me because...
Twenty-five of the 1997-98 fellows are non-resident scholars, including Ted Landsmark, president of the Boston Architectural Center; and Noel Ignatiev, author of the critically acclaimed journal, Race Traitor...
...provocative title suggests, Ignatiev's project is explaining the process of this transformation along with the concomitant results for black as well as white America prior to the Civil War. In an effort to synthesize ethnic studies with Afro-American studies and labor history, he has also taken on the formidable task of examining the political, social and intellectual history which confirmed discrimination along color lines after blacks had begun to form a middle class. It's not enough that scholarship from the likes of Peter Wood and Kenneth Stampp established that slavery itself was market driven; Ignatiev also wants...
...there is anything impeachable about Ignatiev's argument, it's that his evidence could support an even stronger conclusion. According to his own scholarship, the Irish did more than simply become white; they adopted an already oppressive caste structure and polarized it along color lines, so that they became even whiter than native northern whites had ever been. There are also structural problems early in the book, such as a preponderance of evidence which obscures the broader arguments. Awkward syntax and glaring grammatical errors like transitive verbs left dangling without objects appear in the early chapters but vanish...
...Ignatiev's still highly readable study is the new scholarly petard that hoists any lingering myths of white tolerance in antebellum New England. Equally exciting are Ignatiev's observations on 'race' penned as his Afterword viable for another book altogether. 'Race', he notes, not only holds no scientific or biological validity, but continuously devalues itself as a meaningful expression by amalgamating everything from supremacist theory to personal preference. Europe's ethnic divisions, which might have diverted attention from color conflicts, instead disolved into America's melting pot, and left us with the great divide...