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.
Jennifer Ho
CU Boulder ethnic studies; former AAAS president; B.A./M.A./Ph.D. all in English. Claims white supremacy is the root of all race-related violence—including Black-on-Asian assaults—so Whites are ultimately to blame even when no White person is involved.
Open profile →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.
Open profile →Howard M. R. Williams
Professor of Archaeology (University of Chester); targets independent creators who discuss Norse and early medieval history with neo-Nazi smears, TikTok pile-ons, and appearance-based ridicule—Swedish creator Alvi Gunilla is fundraising for legal costs after a Birka retreat was canceled following his videos.
Open profile →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.
Open profile →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.
Open profile →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.
Open profile →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.
Open profile →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.
Open profile →Maurice Berger
Jewish cultural historian and curator; author of White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (1999), a memoir-theory blend that purports to expose Whiteness as a web of myths and complicity.
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