Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization
MONOCULTURAL ==> MULTICULTURAL ==> ANTI-RACIST ==> ANTI-RACIST MULTICULTURAL
Racial and Cultural Differences Seen as Deficits ==> Tolerant of Racial and Cultural Differences ==> Racial and Cultural Differences Seen as Assets
Exclusive 2. Passive
An Exclusionary A "Club"
Institution Institution
• Intentionally and • Tolerant of a limited
publicly excludes or number of “token”
segregates African People of Color and
Americans, Native members from other
Americans, Latinos, and social identify groups
Asian Americans allowed in with "proper"
• Intentionally and perspective and
publicly enforces the credentials.
racist status quo • May still secretly limit or
throughout institution exclude People of Color
• Institutionalization of in contradiction to public
policies
racism includes formal
policies and practices, • Continues to
teachings, and decision intentionally maintain
making on all levels white power and
• Usually has similar privilege through its
formal policies and
intentional policies and
practices toward other practices, teachings, and
socially oppressed decision making on all
groups such as women, levels of institutional life
gays and lesbians, Third • Often declares, "We
World citizens, etc. don't have a problem."
• Openly maintains the • Monocultural norms,
dominant group’s power policies and procedures
and privilege of dominant culture
viewed as the “righ”
way” business as usual”
• Engages issues of
diversity and social
justice only on club
member’s terms and
within their comfort
zone.
© Crossroads Ministry, Chicago, IL: Adapted from original concept by Bailey Jackson and Rita Hardiman, and further developed by Andrea Avazian and Ronice
Branding; further adapted by Melia LaCour, PSESD.
3. Symbolic Change 4. Identity Change 5. Structural Change 6. Fully Inclusive
Anti-Racist Multicultural
A Compliance An Affirming A Transforming Organization in a
Organization Institution Institution Transformed Society
• Makes official policy • Growing understanding • Commits to process of • Future vision of an
pronouncements of racism as barrier to intentional institutional institution and wider
regarding multicultural effective diversity restructuring, based upon community that has
diversity • Develops analysis of anti-racist analysis and overcome systemic
• Sees itself as "non- systemic racism identity racism and all other
racist" institution with • Sponsors programs of • Audits and restructures forms of oppression.
open doors to People of anti-racism training all aspects of • Institution's life reflects
Color institutional life to full participation and
• New consciousness of
• Carries out intentional ensure full participation shared power with
institutionalized white
inclusiveness efforts, of People of Color, diverse racial, cultural
power and privilege
recruiting "someone of including their world- and economic groups in
• Develops intentional view, culture and determining its mission,
color" on committees or
identity as an "anti-
office staff lifestyles structure, constituency,
racist" institution
• Expanding view of • Implements structures, policies and practices
• Begins to develop policies and practices • Members across all
diversity includes other
accountability to racially
socially oppressed with inclusive decision identity groups are full
oppressed communities making and other forms participants in decisions
groups
• Increasing commitment of power sharing on all that shape the institution,
to dismantle racism and levels of the institutions and inclusion of diverse
But… eliminate inherent white life and work cultures, lifestyles, and
advantage • Commits to struggle to interest
• "Not those who make • Actively recruits and dismantle racism in the • A sense of restored
waves" promotes members of wider community, and community and mutual
• Little or no contextual groups have been builds clear lines of caring
change in culture, historically denied accountability to racially • Allies with others in
policies, and decision access and opportunity oppressed communities combating all forms of
making But… • Anti-racist multicultural social oppression
• Is still relatively unaware diversity becomes an • Actively works in larger
of continuing patterns of • Institutional structures institutionalized asset communities (regional,
privilege, paternalism and culture that maintain • Redefines and rebuilds national, global) to
and control white power and all relationships and eliminate all forms of
• Token placements in privilege still intact and activities in society, oppression and to create
staff positions: must relatively untouched based on anti-racist multicultural
assimilate into commitments organizations.
organizational culture