Profiles

Compiled reference pages on public figures who have advanced arguments that treat White people, White identity, or ordinary political and cultural preferences as morally suspect, pathological, or illegitimate—particularly when those arguments are presented as scholarship or expertise.

Gail M. Ferguson

Developmental psychologist (University of Minnesota); “Whiteness pandemic” treats White parents as disease vectors and White children as patients who must be cured of themselves—sold as science through American Psychologist and the lab’s parenting pages.

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Jonathan M. Metzl

Physician and professor; author of Dying of Whiteness (2019), which frames White racial identity and related voting patterns as drivers of self-destructive public policy in the United States.

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Stephanie Li

Literary scholar; author of Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America (2023), analyzing contemporary White-authored fiction through a framework of morally degraded “ugly” Whiteness.

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Noel Ignatiev

Historian and editor; author of How the Irish Became White (1995); co-founded Race Traitor and promoted slogans to “abolish” the White race.

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Cheryl I. Harris

UCLA law professor; author of Whiteness as Property (1993), arguing Whiteness is a protected legal “property” and that affirmative action should dismantle it through broad distributive justice.

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Cyril Ramaphosa

President of South Africa; backs “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer” as liberation politics and cites Equality Court, SCA, and Constitutional Court rulings that refuse to label it hate speech.

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Maurice Berger

Jewish cultural historian and curator; author of White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (1999), a memoir-theory blend that exposes Whiteness as a web of myths and complicity.

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