Race Traitor
A provocative essay collection that attacks race as a social construct and argues for radical abolition of whiteness.
Work Information
A provocative essay collection that attacks race as a social construct and argues for radical abolition of whiteness.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 1996-04-30
- Pages
- 304 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780415913928
- ISBN-10
- 0415913926
- Price
- 33365 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/Minority Studies
Race Traitor brings together voices ranging from tenured university professors to skinheads and prison inmates to discuss the "white question" in America. Working from the premise that the white race has been socially constructed, Race Traitor is a call for the disruption of white conformity and the formation of a New Abolitionism to dissolve it. In a time when white supremicist thinking seems to be gaining momentum, Race Traitor brings together voices ranging from tenured university professors to skinheads and prison inmates to discuss the "white question" in America. Through popular culture, current events, history and personal life stories, the essays analyze the forces that hold the white race together--and those that promise to tear it apart. When a critical mass of people come together who, though they look white, have ceased to act white, the white race will undergo fission and former whites will be able to take part in building a new human community.
Noel Ignatiev is the author of How the Irish Became White (Routledge, 1995). John Garvey works in the Office of Academic Affairs at City University of New York. Together they are the founders and editors of Race Traitor: A Journal of the New Abolitionism.
Reviews
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Bought a used copy for reference.
Mr. Ignatiev, and others like him, have spent decades gaslighting people of European descent. Teaching us we have no culture, no racial identity; that we don't deserve those things, or any racial representation. And that we're the only group who doesn't deserve those things. All lies. Mr. Ignatiev is gone, but we are still here. No guilt. No shame. Forever and always.