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What is a ruling class?

From You Call This A Democracy? © 2006 A class is a segment of society that, through its shared economic position and cultural values, participates in common social, political, and economic interests and specific forms of access or lack Read more... Read More

What’s In A Name?

THE WORDS1 WE USE TO DESCRIBE groups of people have developed within the system of racism as it has changed historically. These words have changed and continue to change, partly in response to the struggle to end racism, and Read more... Read More

Where Are You In the Class System?

By Paul Kivel Adapted from You Call This a Democracy?: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who Decides (2004, updated 2019) I think it is useful to consider where each of us falls in the economic system. Our class position influences Read more... Read More

Where Do Batterer Intervention Programs Fit In?

What Do We Do with the Men? PROGRAMS FOR MEN WHO BATTER THEIR PARTNERS are fairly recent phenomena. Although Batterer Intervention Programs (BIPs) were set up in the late 1970s, it was not until the mid-1980s that BIPs became fashionable Read more... Read More

White Benefits Exercise—Going Deeper

By Paul Kivel Adapted from Uprooting Racism (1995, updated 2017) Introduction to Exercise–Going Deeper [1] White privilege can be a misleading phrase that many people have difficulty relating to. Many poor and working class white people lack adequate food, safe Read more... Read More

White Benefits? A Personal Assessment

WHEN I BEGAN TO TAKE CAREFUL STOCK of my family’s history over the last 60 years, I could trace the powerful and long-lasting benefits that have accrued to me and to my family because of affirmative action programs for white Read more... Read More

Working with Men and Boys

Emerging Strategies from across Africa to address gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS, by Sonke Gender Justice Network and the MenEngage Network. Please send comments, feedback, resources, and suggestions for distribution to paul@paulkivel.com. Further resources are available at www.paulkivel.com. All articles may Read more... Read More

Working with Young People

Working with Youth As adults (and youth) who work with and support young people, we can use some help and direction in how to do this work well. We are part of a group that, both in fact and in Read more... Read More

You Call This a Democracy – full text available for download

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 Commons Attribution Read more... Read More