Complete online archive of Race Traitor, a journal dedicated to abolishing the concept of whiteness in the United States, published in the 1990s and 2000s.
Race Traitor: the journal of new abolitionism
Race Traitor #1
The debut issue of Race Traitor from Winter 1993.
Table of Contents
Abolish The White Race - By Any Means Necessary
Two Who Said "No" To Whiteness: Boston Public Schools, 1962-1975, by James W. Fraser
Lydia Maria Child and the Example of John Brown, by Carolyn L. Karacher
The American Intifada, by Noel Ignatiev
Bridges and Boundaries: Black-Jewish Relations, Documents Regarding the Jewish Museum Exhibition
Reading, 'Riting, and Race, by John Garvey
Civil War Reenactments and Other Myths, by Phil Rubio
The White Question, by David Roediger
Malcolm X Beyond Labels, by David Kurnick
Letter from Europe by Louis Kushnick
Correspondence
Attachments
Comments
Race Traitor #2
The 2nd issue of Race Traitor, summer 1993.
Table of Contents
Three Days that Shook the New World Order: The Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992, by The Chicago Surrealist Group
My Problem with Multi-Cultural Education, by John Garvey
Running the Ball in Crown Point by Kingsley Clarke
Gangsta' Rap: Live on the Stage of History, by Christopher Day
Huckleberry Finn: Race Traitor, Symposium
Immigrants and Whites by Noel Ignatiev
Crossover Dreams: The "exceptional white" in popular culture, by Phil Rubio
Editors' Report
Correspondence
Attachments
Comments
Race Traitor #3
3rd issue of Race Traitor, Spring 1994.
Table of Contents
Who Lost an American, by Joel Gilbert, as told to Noel Ignatiev
Back From Hell: Black Power and Treason to Whiteness Inside Prison Walls, by Komboa Ervin
Letters from Lucasville Prison, by Chryztof Knecht
When We Don't Get Race, It Kills Us, by Mab Segrest
Free To Be Me
Richmond Journal: Thirty Years in Black & White, by Edward H. Peeples
Panic, Rage, and Reason, by John Garvey
Out of Whiteness, by Christopher Day
Review: Ruth Frankenburg, White Women, Race Matters, by Marion Gray
"I just called myself a little foot-soldier..." An Interview with activists at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Can I Get a Witness, by Phil Rubio
Reflections on the Comparative History and Sociology of Racism, by George M. Frederickson
The White Worker and the Labor Movement in Nineteenth-Century America, by Noel Ignatiev
Editorials: When Does the Unreasonable Act Make Sense?
Anti-Fascism, "Anti-racism," and Abolition
Correspondence
Attachments
Comments
Race Traitor #4
4th issue of Race Traitor, Winter 1995.
Table of Contents
Manifesto of a Dead Daughter by Patricia Eakins
Police Assisted Homicide, by Joel Olson
White Silence, White Solidarity by Christine E. Sleeter
Family Matters by John Garvey
Abolish the Jewish Caste by Adam Sabra
Lucasville Update by Chryztof Knecht
White Blues by Paul Garon
Unlettered by Irving Ignatin
Poems by John Strucker
Reviews:
Vron Ware, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History
by Susan Pennybacker
Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, Volume One. Racial Oppression and Social Control
by David Roediger
Mab Segrest, Memoir of a Race Traitor
by Maryon Gray
Correspondence
Attachments
Comments
Race Traitor #5
The 5th issue of Race Traitor, Winter 1996.
Table of Contents
Editorials:
Aux armes! Formez vos bataillons!
Until It Hurts
Features:
Beyond History by Kate Shepard Power
Exchange with a National Socialist Noel Ignatiev and Arthur Pendragon
Black Siouxie Tells of Daily Life by Susan Lasley
Running in Vicious Circles: Racism and the African Drum by Lilian Friedberg
Headgear by Mansfield B. Frazier
Black-Jewish Conflict in the Labor Context: Race, Jobs, and Institutional Power by Herbert Hill
Reviews:
William Upski Wimsatt, Bomb the Suburbs
by Kingsley Clarke
Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
by Matt Wray
Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's
by Beth Henson
Correspondence
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Comments
Race Traitor #6
The 6th issue of Race Traitor, Summer 1996.
Table of Contents
White History Month by Patricia Eakins
Copwatch by Selena and Katrina
Memories of the Children's Crusade by Beth Henson
Other Races
Exchange
Latinos: The Indian Escape Hatch by William Javier Nelson
Illegal Alien: A Homecoming Address and Telling Times (poem) by Lilian Friedberg
Ray Sprigle, Pioneer by Richard Rees
Reviews
The First Woman in the Republic
Sacred Hunger
Books Briefly Noted
Letters
Attachments
Comments
Race Traitor #7
7th issue of Race Traitor, Spring 1997.
Table of Contents
Abolitionism on the Campus
Students for the Abolition of Whiteness: Chicago
New Abolitionist Students: Austin, Texas
Whiteness in Early Virginia by Terrence W. Epperson
Statement to Anti-Racist Network
by Autonomous Zone
American Dreaming
Race and the Enlightenment: From Anti-Semitism to White Supremacy Part I, 1492-1676 by Loren Goldner
Blackface, Jackstraws, and Tin Paneling: Memoir as Confession by David John Zaido
Changing Race: Rev. Kenneth Patton
Two 1947 columns by Joseph D. Bibbs & George Schuyler
Suburbs: Poem by Chris Dietz
Who's been burning... Poem by Jack Hirschman
Reviews
C.L.R. James on the 'Negro Question'
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
Parish Boundaries; Black Weath/White Weath; Still Promised City
Letters
From Fairbanks, Bisbee, Phoenix, San Francisco, Wilmington,
Jacksonville, Monee, New orleans, Jamaica Plain, Somerville,
Kalamazoo, Brooklyn, Raleigh, Akron, Tulsa, Seattle, and Lund
Attachments
Comments
Race Traitor #8
Contents
Features
Staughton Lynd - Black and White and Dead All Over: The Lucasville Insurrection
Rich Gibson - Privilege on Holiday
Eula Bliss - Team Players
James Murray - Chiapas & Montana: Tierra Y Libertad
Jane Manners - Repackaging Segregation? A History of the Magnet School System in Montclair, New Jersey
Thomas Landefeld - Constructively Demoted
Review
Joanna Brooks - The Redneck Manifesto
Letters
Attachments
Comments
Race Traitor #9
9th issue of Race Traitor: Surrealism special, Summer 1998.
Table of Contents
The Chicago Surrealist Group: Introduction
Surrealists on Whiteness, from 1925 to the Present
Franklin Rosemont: Surrealism - Revolution Against Whiteness
J. Allen Fees: Burning the Days
Dave Roediger: Plotting Against Eurocentrism
Pierre Mabille: The Marvelous Basis of a Free Society
Philip Lamantia: The Days Fall Asleep with Riddles
The Surrealist Group of Madrid: Beyond Anti-Racism
Penelope Rosemont: Nancy Cunard - "Thinking Sympathetically Black"
Nancy Cunard: "Does Anyone Know Any Negroes?" (1931)
Myrna Bell Rochester: René Crevel: Critic of White Patriarchy
René Crevel: The Black Woman in the Brothel (1931)
Surrealist Group of France: Murderous Humanitarianism (1932)
Ronnie Burk: Racist Clichés in the U.S.A.
Irene Plazewska: Dream Constellations
Paul Garon: Psychiatry's White Problem - Racism as Therapy
Eric Bragg: Miserabilism and the New Eugenics
Larry Romano: Oh Sisters of Haiti
Artur do Cruzeiro Seixas: My Escape to Africa
Franklin Rosemont: Jacques Vaché, One-Man War Against Whiteness
Joseph Jablonski: Lord Buckley
Ron Sakolsky: Harry Smith's American Dreamscape
Charles Radcliffe: Whitewashing the Blues
Daniel C. Boyer: Are You Crazy? Mental Illness & Whiteness
The Surrealist Movement in the U.S.: For Tyree Guyton
Hilary Booth: We're Sorry He's Not Sorry
REVIEWS
Ronnie Burk: The Forecast Is Hot! Tracts of the Surrealist Movement in the U.S., 1966-1976, by Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont and Paul Garon
Dennis Brutus: Black on White: Black Writers on What it Means to Be White, edited by Dave Roediger
Tom Moon: Blues and the Poetic Spirit by Paul Garon
F. R.: Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere by Jayne Cortez
Dave Roediger: Yo' Mama's Disfunktional by Robin D. G. Kelley
Rachel Blackwell: The Story of Mary MacLane & Other Writings, edited by Penelope Rosemont
Warren Leming: From Bughouse Square to the Beat Generation: Selected Ravings of Slim Brundage, edited/introduced by Franklin Rosemont
Peter Lamborn Wilson: Paschal Beverly Randolph: A 19th2DCentury Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian and Sex Magician by John P. Deveney
F. R.: Bed of Sphinxes by Philip Lamantia
ILLUSTRATIONS:
Victor Brauner, Ronnie Burk, Laura Corsigilia, Artur do Cruzeiro Seixas, Robert Green, Ted Joans, Ribitch, Marko Ristic, Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, Joel Williams, Haifa Zangana
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Race Traitor #10
Winter 1999 issue of Racetraitor, a journal dedicated to abolishing the concept of whiteness in the United States.
Renew the Legacy of John Brown
NOEL IGNATIEV: Abolitionism and the White Studies Racket
ANN FILEMYR: Resisting Arrest
REBECCA CLARK: Hunting Whiteness
MARTIN ESPADA: Postcard from the Empire of Queen Ixolib
LOREN GOLDNER: Race and the Enlightenment (Part II)
JAMES TRACY: Jaime the Chameleon
Brown Family Letters
BETH HENSON: Plowshares into Swords: John Brown & the Poet of Rage
LAUREN ONKEY: Constructing Whiteness at the Gates of 85 Hell: Black 47's "Five Points"
poetry
VICTORIA MARINELLI: The Hook
MICHAEL GREGORY: Dry Spells
reviews
letters
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Race Traitor #11
11th issue of Race Traitor, Spring 2000.
Table of Contents
Features
ROBERT LOWE: Teachers as Saviors, Teachers Who Care
DAVID ROEDIGER: John Brown and Black Revolt
EDGAR RIVERA COLON: Mejorando La Raza
RON SAKOLSKY: Vachel Lindsay
JAMES MURRAY: White Trash Identity and the Loss of Slack
LILIAN FRIEDBERG: An American Nightmare
DAVID HILL: The Wiggers You Love to Hate
ANTONIO LOPEZ: Slot Right 24 Take
STEPHEN MANTIN: Social Climbing
JAY CASPIAN KANG: History 014
Poetry
RONNIE BURK: Letter to Myself
KEVIN A. EATON: High Voltage
Reviews
Letters
Attachments
Comments
Race Traitor #12
Contents
Features
Editorial: Abolitionism and the Free Society - Reality and the Future
David Barber: "A Fucking White Revolutionary Mass Movement" and Other Fables of Whiteness
Editors: Afterward
Poetry
Sara Littlecrow-Russell: I Become a Political Traitor
Attachments
Comments
Race Traitor #13-14
13/14th issue of Race Traitor, Summer 2001.
SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE: Surrealism in the USA: The Complete Contents of the Suppressed Surrealist Issue of "Socialist Review"
Table of Contents
Editorial: A Note to the Readers of RACE TRAITOR
Ron Sakolsky: Return of the Suppressed
Introduction - Surrealist Subversion in Chicago
Franklin Rosemont: Surrealism, Poetry, & Politics
Danny Postel: An Interview With Penelope Rosemont
David Roediger: Radical HIstory Without Surrealism
Anne Olson: The marvelous Against the Sacred
Paul Garon: Houston Baker's Blues Position
Joseph Jablonski: Their Millenium and Ours
Mari Jo Marchnight: Surrealism and Women's Liberation
Penelope Rosemont: Ody Saban - Surrealist and Outsider
Don LaCoss: Conflicting Views of Surrealism - Vaneigem vs. Kelley
Robin D.G. Kelley: A New Look at the Communist Manifesto
FROM THE SIXTIES TO THE NEW MILLENIUM: Nancy Joyce Peters: Long Live the Living! Les Blank's Always for Pleasure
Paul Buhle: Herbert Marcuse, Surrealism, & Us
Herert Marcuse: Interview With the Surrealist Journal L'Archibras
Joseph jablonski: Surrealist Implications of Chance
Philip Lamantia & Nancy Joyce Peters: Surrealism Today & Tomorrow
Robert Green: Against the Art Racket
The Chicago Surrealist Group: Maxwell Street Forever! The Surrealist Movement in the United States: Who Needs the WTO?
Franklin Rosemont: The Only Game in Town: Surrealism and Play
SURREALIST GAMES: If He/She Were a Flower
Latent News
The Exquisite Corpse
Time-Travelers' Potlatch
INQUIRY: SURREALIST SUBVERSION IN EVERYDAY LIFE: Franklin Rosemont & Paul Garon: The Role of Inquiriy in Surrealist Research
The Questions
Responses by Gale Ahrens, Diana Almario-Kopp, Jennifer Bean, Dan Boyer, Marilyn Buck, Paul Buhle, Ronnie Burk, Jayne Cortez, Rikki Ducornet, J. Alen Fees, Bradon J. Freels, Paul & Elizabeth Garon, Jan Hathaway, Bertha Husband & Mari Jo Marchnight, Joseph Jablonski, Robin D.G. Kelley, Don LaCoss, Casandra Stark Mee, Frank Morales, Anne Olson, Myrna Bell Rochester, David Roediger, Larry Romano, Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, Michael Stone-Richards & Julien Lenoir, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
POETRY & STORIES: Penelope Rosemont, Mary Low, Jayne Cortez, Casandra Stark Mee, Franklin Rosemont, Ted Joans, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, Ronnie Burk
Further Reading on Surrealism
"Socialist Review" Editors Afterword
The Surrealists' Response to the "Socialist Review" Afterword
REPRODUCTIONS: Works by Diana Almario-Kopp, Eric Bragg, Laura Corsiglia, Carlos Cortez, Jayne Cortez, Guy Ducornet, Rikki Ducornet, Schlechter Duval, Eugenio F. Granell, Robert Green, Diedra Harris-Keley, Jan Hathaway, Bertha Husband, Cynthia Jablonski, Mary Low, Casandra Stark Mele, Jacinto Minot, Anne Olson, Nancy J. Peters, Irene Plazewska, Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, Ody Saban, Debra Taub, Joel Williams
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Race Traitor #15
15th issue of Race Traitor, Fall 2001.
Table of Contents
John Garvey: The Life and Death of Timothy McVeigh
James Murray: April 19 (fiction)
Lara Braveheart: Tim McVeigh and Me
John Brown and the Militia
Staughton Lynd: Race Behind Bars - An Exchange
Rich Gibson: Lonely Privilege
Amiri K. Barksdale: Review of Fight Club
Timothy Messer-Kruse: Crusaders and Bystanders
Loren Goldner: Review of Kevin Coogan, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yocky and the Postwar Fascist International
Adam Sabra: Review of Peter Gran, Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History
Attachments
Comments
Race Traitor #16
16th of Race Traitor, Winter 2005.
Special Palestine issue.
Table of Contents
Noel Ignatiev: Introduction
Ronit Lentin: Guest Introduction
Omar Barghouti: Relative Humanity: The Fundamental Obstacle to a Secular Democratic State Solution
Ilan Pappe: The One-State Solution in Historical Perspective
Naseer H. Aruri: US Policy and the Single State in Palestine/Israel
Eli Aminov: Why Secular Democracy?
As'ad Ghanem: The Binational Solution for the Israeli Palestinian Crisis: A Realistic Solution
Adam Sabra: Binationalism or a National State? A Response to As'ad Ghanem
Ghada Karmi: The Right of Return and the Unitary State in Israel/Palestine
Israel Shamir: Russians in the Holy Land
Comments
If anyone has more issues of
If anyone has more issues of this they could upload that would be great! Just click "add child page" here
Now complete. Thanks to
Now complete. Thanks to dendrite303 for the better scans.
Thanks for uploading all
Thanks for uploading all these.
Good to see these online. For
Good to see these online.
For those who don't know, some of the people involved in Racetraitor now publish Hard Crackers.
For those that don't know,
For those that don't know, Noel Ignatiev passed away back in November. There were a number of obituaties published.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/noel-ignatievs-long-fight-against-whiteness
https://communemag.com/noel-ignatiev-1940-2019/
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2019-11-11/noel-ignatiev-dies-race-whiteness
Personally, I thought Michael Staudenmaier wrote a very good summary of his life:
https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/noel-ignatiev-1940-2019-a-revolutionary-who-tried-to-think/
This by John Garvey was good
This by John Garvey was good as well: https://brooklynrail.org/2019/12/field-notes/Noel-Ignatiev-1940-2019
He also did a long interview with IGD shortly before his death: https://itsgoingdown.org/noel-ignatiev-on-race-traitor-white-supremacy-and-abolition/-