Home and Family

Although your family members may all be white and your neighbors appear so, there may well be people of other cultures, people in interracial families, people of mixed heritage or people who are passing as white among your friends. People Read more... Read More

I’m Not White I’m Jewish: Standing as Jews in the Fight for Racial Justice

I MUST ADMIT THAT I HAD SOME HESITATION over accepting the invitation to participate in a conference on whiteness because, as an activist, I am skeptical about the usefulness of academic gatherings unless they are explicitly addressing grassroots community issues. Read more... Read More

Immigrants and Immigration

Adapted from Paul Kivel, Uprooting Racism, revised 4th edition, New Society, September 2017 Immigration is a racial issue. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials do not stop and interrogate white people or conduct raids to stem the flow of Read more... Read More

Indigenous Solidarity There and Here

Dear Bay Area people, Many of you are supporting or want to support the efforts at Standing Rock to resist the North Dakota Access Pipeline. There are action steps below from the folks at SURJ—Showing Up for Racial Justice below Read more... Read More

Interview with Ed Misler

Ed Misler interviews Paul about his involvement with the struggle to end male violence.   All articles may be quoted, adapted, or reprinted only for noncommercial purposes and with an attribution to Paul Kivel, paulkivel.com. Creative Commons Attribution – Noncommercial Read more... Read More

Interview with Intersections Radio

Paul speaks with Intersections Radio about adultism, Christian hegemony and how racism works.   Listen to internet radio with IntersectionsRadio on BlogTalkRadio Read more... Read More

Interview with Robert Goodwin at Jefferson Public Radio

Paul Kivel was recently interviewed by Robert Goodwin from Jefferson Public Radio. Click below to hear the full interview! The Keenest Observers: “Uprooting Racism” By GEOFFREY RILEY, JOHN BAXTER & APRIL EHRLICH • OCT 30, 2017 Remember the talk Read more... Read More

Interview: Anti-Racism Book Club

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Introduction from Helping Teens Stop Violence

Introduction from Helping Teens Stop Violence, Build Community, and Stand for Justice by Paul Kivel & Allan Creighton Introduction   Welcome to the twentieth-anniversary edition of what was originally titled Helping Teens Stop Violence. Our first book presented our work Read more... Read More

Introduction from You Call This A Democracy?

“In the past, Americans smugly assumed that European societies were more stratified than their own, but it now appears that the United States has surpassed all industrial societies in the extent of its family wealth inequality.” — Lisa Keister, sociologist1 Read more... Read More