Ignatiev

Proper noun

Ignatiev

1. A surname from Russian.
   • 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 265
   • 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 2020