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Cultural Appropriation
From Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel The sense of entitlement white people are socialized to have leads directly to cultural appropriation: taking traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture Read more... -
Cultural Humility Podcast: Does Diversity Equal White Genocide?
Click below to listen to Paul’s interview with Dr. Miguel Gallardo, in which they discuss the question: “Does diversity equal white genocide?” You can access the direct link to the audio here. Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions Read more... -
Declaration
Declaration from the Global Symposium on Engaging Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equity. Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. All articles may be quoted, adapted, or reprinted only Read more...Issue: Gender JusticeRead More -
Distractions
Adapted and Updated from Paul Kivel, You Call This a Democracy? Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine, Walt Whitman, Albert Einstein, Daniel Webster, Andrew Carnegie, Louis Brandeis, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Mark Twain, Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Emma Read more...Issue: Economic JusticeRead More -
Entitlement
From Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice by Paul Kivel Having benefits and being part of the culture of power encourages a person to develop a sense of entitlement to special treatment. Entitlement is the sense Read more... -
Environmental Justice
Adapted from Paul Kivel, Uprooting Racism, revised 4th edition, New Society, September 2017 One of the most critical national and international issues we face is global warming including such visible effects as ice cap melting, rising temperatures and sea Read more... -
Examining Class and Race
I GREW UP BELIEVING THAT ALL AMERICANS have equal opportunity to succeed because there is a level playing field and affirmative action was no longer necessary. Since then, I have found this exercise useful to challenge our common assumptions of Read more... -
Eye to Eye: Gotta Get Down With Our Toddlers
I LOVED PLAYING WITH ARIEL when he was a baby. He cradled in my arm like my body was meant to hold him. I could carry him easily, close to me, on my stomach in a snuggli, on my back Read more...Issue: Young PeopleRead More -
Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies
WHAT KIND OF ACTIVE SUPPORT does a strong white ally provide to a person of color? Over the years, people of color that I have talked with have been remarkably consistent in describing the kinds of support they need from Read more... -
Guidelines for Challenging Sexism and Male Supremacy
Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. All articles may be quoted, adapted, or reprinted only for noncommercial purposes and with an attribution to Paul Kivel, www.paulkivel.com. Creative Read more...Issue: Gender JusticeRead More