Meanings
- A surname from Russian.
Sadly, Ignatiev argued, the Irish became incorporated into whiteness just before the Civil War, through support for slavery and violence against free African Americans.
2019 November 12, Sewell Chan, “Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 09 Jul 20202 more examples
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.
1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 265Former 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.
2024 April 11, Wade Miller, “Policy Brief: The Great Replacement in Theory and Practice”, in Center for Renewing America, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2024
Origin
Transliteration of Russian Игнатьев (Ignatʹjev).
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Ignatiev. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ignatiev
“Ignatiev.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ignatiev. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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