Meaning of Ignatiev | Babel Free

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A surname from Russian.

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“One such officer was Count⟳ Nikolai Ignatiev, a brilliant and ambitious political, who enjoyed the ear of the Tsar and burned to settle⟳ his country's scores with the British.”

“Sadly, Ignatiev argued, the Irish became incorporated into whiteness just before the Civil War, through support⟳ for slavery and violence against free African Americans.”

“Former Harvard professor and communist Noel Ignatiev, who co-founded the New Abolitionist Society and founded a journal called Race⟳ Traitor, named after a book he coauthored in the mid-1990s, famously advocated for the complete⟳ abolition of the white race⟳ […] Note⟳ a certain coyness about whether this destruction refers to only a white race⟳ category or to all white-skinned people.”

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