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... 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... Read More

Guidelines for Working with Young Men

A FACILITATOR’S GUIDE “Our struggle is not easy… The truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice oneself for others in the nonviolent struggle for justice.” —Cesar Chavez YOUNG MEN’S WORK: STOPPING VIOLENCE AND BUILDING COMMUNITY Read more... Read More

Guidelines for Working with Young Women

Introduction and Facilitator’s Guide from Young Women’s Lives: Building Self-Awareness for Life by Nell Myhand and Paul Kivel YOUNG WOMEN’S LIVES: BUILDING SELF-AWARENESS FOR LIFE is a program for young women, ages 14-19. It is designed to celebrate and enhance Read more... Read More

Hard Knock Radio Interview: Uprooting Racism

Listen to this insightful conversation between Paul Kivel and Anita Johnson from Hard Knock Radio about Uprooting Racism! 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 Read more... Read More

Healthcare

The US healthcare system is so riddled with racism that tens of thousands of people of color die needlessly every year because of its inadequacies. Others are permanently disabled, live with remediable conditions, or suffer seriously inferior quality of life. Read more... Read More

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

How Do They Rule? The Constitution, Corporations and the Courts

Adapted and updated from You Call This a Democracy (2004) by Paul Kivel Members of the power elite are able to make many decisions themselves through their direct control over land and corporations, foundations, trusts, and other institutions. But their 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 Read more... Read More