What Do the Levels Mean?
Our resources have a designated level in each title to help you find the right resource for your research purpose while meeting your current place in your awakening process. Our levels are modeled after the Ramsey County Community Human Services Anti-Racism Leadership Team in Minnesota:
- Level 1 – Diversity Awareness: Resources listed as Level 1 are meant to help you understand racism in America, its cause, and its associated effects on academics of color. These resources should help your awareness, sensitivity, understanding, and respect for people of other ethnic groups.
- Level 2 – Cultural Diversity: Resources listed as Level 2 assume a basic understanding of racism in America and instead focus on celebrating cultural diversity. These resources emphasize the differences across cultural contexts and help you communicate and relate to others across cultural lines.
- Level 3 – Anti-Racism and Social Justice: Resources listed as Level 3 are heavy in anti-racism vocabulary and either make recommendations or are examples of active anti-racism work you can use in your research, classroom, or the graduate student pipeline. These resources work to dismantle racist ideologies and structural racism, focusing on how current practices and policies do not serve BIPOC scholars and communities.