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Excerpts from Young Men’s Work: Stopping Violence and Building Community
Retaining Benefits, Avoiding Responsibility
(adapted from Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice)
What’s in a Name?
(adapted from Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice)
White Benefits? A Personal Assessment
Assessing Public Policy Issues and Political Candidates
(from You Call This a Democracy?: Who Benefits, Who Pays and Who Really Decides)
Men’s Work: To Stop Male Violence
Are You Still Challenging Sexism and Male Supremacy?
The Ruling Class and the Buffer Zone
(from You Call This a Democracy?: Who Benefits, Who Pays and Who Really Decides)
The Costs of Racism to White People
(from Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice)
Man to Man
(reprinted in Voice Male, Fall 2007)
Men’s Movements
(from Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart)
The Oakland Men’s Project
(from Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart)
Adultism
(from Helping Teens Stop Violence: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents)
Boys Will Be Men
Adultism
(from Helping Teens Stop Violence: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents)
Boys Will Be Men: Guiding Your Sons from Boyhood to Manhood
(reprinted in Skipping Stones, Vol. 19 No. 2 p. 33)
Raising Jewish Boys
(reprinted in Achim, Fall 2006 p. 23)
Young White Men: Scared, Entitled, and Cynical
Making the Peace: Helping Teens Stop Violence
Affirmative Action Works!
(from Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice)
Eye to Eye: Gotta Get Down With Our Toddlers
(from Toddler: Real-Life Stories of Those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love, ed. Jennifer Margulis, Seal Press 2003)
Myths and Facts about Violence
(from Helping Teens Stop Violence: A Practical Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents)
Men’s Work
Anger Is Not the Problem
(from Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart)
Man to Man
(reprinted in Voice Male, Fall 2007)
Men’s Movements
(from Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart)
The Oakland Men’s Project
(from Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart)
Where Do the Batterer Intervention Programs Fit?
Young White Men: Scared, Entitled, and Cynical
Uprooting Racism
The Culture of Power
(adapted from Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice)
Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies
(reprinted in Turning Wheel, Spring 2007 p. 29)
I’m Not White, I’m Jewish
(from Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice)
Wealth, Power, & Class
Accountability: Who Benefits from Your Work?
Afterword from You Call This a Democracy?
Are You Mentoring for Social Justice?
Social Service or Social Change?
(earlier, shorter version)
Social Service or Social Change?
(reprinted from The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-profit Industrial Complex, published by South End Press.)
Young Men’s Work
Excerpts from Young Men’s Work: Stopping Violence and Building Community