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  A Web of Control

  Each sphere of the buffer zone contributes to an overall web of control that is devastating to communities of color and serves to keep them out of mainstream institutions. School teachers, counselors and administrators often monitor youth of color closely, Read more...

  Issue: Racial Justice, Uprooting Racism 4th Edition

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  Accountability: Who Benefits From Our Work?

  THOSE OF US WHO ARE EDUCATORS on issues of diversity and multiculturalism and who are committed to the struggle for social justice in this country need to ask ourselves some hard questions. What is our role when affirmative action is Read more...

  Issue: Economic Justice, Racial Justice, Uprooting Racism 4th Edition

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  Adultism

  WHY DO YOUNG PEOPLE do poorly in school? Why do young people use drugs, or hang out on street corners, or get pregnant? A common answer to these questions is that many teens have low self-esteem, generally defined as a Read more...

  Issue: Young People

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  Affirmative Action Works

  AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WORKS. There are thousands of examples of situations where people of color, white women, and working class women and men of all races who were previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, Read more...

  Issue: Racial Justice, Uprooting Racism 4th Edition

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  Afterword from You Call This a Democracy?: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who Really Decides

  AS THE EVIDENCE IN MY BOOK, You Call This a Democracy?, makes abundantly clear, we do not live in a democracy, a country run by the people for the people. A few thousand powerful individuals, the power elite—predominately white Christian Read more...

  Issue: Economic Justice

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  Allies, Collaborators and Agents

  Every white person plays a role in either maintaining racism as a collaborator or agent, or challenging it as an ally. An ally takes an active, strategic role in confronting racism. A collaborator, on the other hand, is someone who Read more...

  Issue: Racial Justice, Uprooting Racism 4th Edition

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  Anger is not the Problem

  WHEN WE LOOK AT MEN’S LIVES and the effects of our actions on those around us, it can look like anger is the problem. But anger is not the problem, violence is. It is a tragedy that we have been Read more...

  Issue: Gender Justice, Violence Prevention

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  Are You Challenging Sexism and Male Supremacy?

  THERE HAVE BEEN MANY FORMS of patriarchal societies over the ages. Currently in the U.S., patriarchy takes the form of sexism and male supremacy. By that I mean that we currently live within the pervasive, systematic, everyday system of exploitation, Read more...

  Issue: Gender Justice

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  Are You Mentoring for Social Justice?

  Are You Mentoring for Social Justice?(1) Giving birth and nourishing, Having without possessing, Acting with no expectations,| Leading and not trying to control: This is the supreme virtue. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.(2) I Read more...

  Issue: Activism, Young People

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  Assesing Public Policy Issues and Political Candidates

  The following article is comprised of excerpts from Paul Kivel’s books Uprooting Racism and You Call This a Democracy?   Getting Information1 BECAUSE OF POWER ELITE CONTROL of the media, including textbooks, news sources, “expert” testimony, and academic and Read more...

  Issue: Economic Justice

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