Videos for Talking about Racism
A list of videos to aid discussion. 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 Read more...
We're All Under Attack: Looking at Christian Dominance
Sometimes these days it seems like just about everybody is under attack. That only rich white heterosexual, able-bodied men have any kind of security. If that seems true to you perhaps it is because it is true. In fact, this Read more...
Wealth, Power, and Class (2008)
Paul talks to an audience in Lyndonville, VT about how the distribution of wealth in the U.S. shapes the structure of power. Part 1: Context and Agreements Part 2: Tree of Life, Assessment Part 3: The Ten Chairs Exercise Part Read more...
What About Friends and Family Members?
This is an excerpt from Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel (You can find the updated version of the book here.) We may have a lot more at stake personally when confronted with friends or family members who are outspokenly Read more...
What do you stand for? Who do you stand with?
Since the publication of the first edition of my book Uprooting Racism?: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice over twenty years ago there are a massive number of studies and other forms of documentation demonstrating the workings of Read more...
What Does the Economic Structure of the US Look Like?
Adapted from You Call This a Democracy (2006) by Paul Kivel Who Makes Up the U.S. Ruling Class? The ruling class in the United States is about 1 percent of the population, or approximately 2.9 million men, women, and Read more...
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...
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...
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...
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...