Noel Ignatiev

[ed miliband]

What do people think of him?

I've heard some bad stuff from various groups/individuals I identify with (in Black Flame for example, if I remember correctly), but he did a pretty good introduction to a CLR James book AK Press recently put out. I don't really know enough about him to form an opinion...

His book How the Irish Became White is available in the most conservative of Irish bookstores, which always makes me laugh.

[blake 3:17]

I only know his work editing Race Traitor which was an important in the anti-racist and anti-fascist movement in the 90s.

I`ve meant to read How the Irish Became White for years now but never got to it.

He came out of the US Progressive Labor Party which I`ve heard lots of good and bad things about. The people I know that were in the PLP are all really good on the important stuff.

Irish nationalism has veered often between the Left and the Right. There were huge generational differences within Sinn Fein.

[Os Cangaceiros]

What do people think of him?

I've heard some bad stuff from various groups/individuals I identify with (in Black Flame for example, if I remember correctly), but he did a pretty good introduction to a CLR James book AK Press recently put out. I don't really know enough about him to form an opinion...

His book How the Irish Became White is available in the most conservative of Irish bookstores, which always makes me laugh.

Yeah, the authors of BF criticized his work, I can't really remember exactly what their objections were, although IIRC it was that someone like Albert Parsons probably recognized the fact that he was a white male, but just didn't think that fact wasn't very important and wasn't of any consequence to his participation in a revolutionary movement.

Haven't actually read anything by the author in question, though.

[ed miliband]

Yeah, the authors of BF criticized his work, I can't really remember exactly what their objections were, although IIRC it was that someone like Albert Parsons probably recognized the fact that he was a white male, but just didn't think that fact wasn't very important and wasn't of any consequence to his participation in a revolutionary movement.

Haven't actually read anything by the author in question, though.

I remembered it as being something along the lines of black workers and white workers having more in common with each other than white workers have with the white bourgeoisie, which is just common sense and some Ignatiev seems to attest to in that intro I read.