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A continuum, not a score The institution can sit in more than one stage at once. You do not sit people.
What you’ll be able to do Identify the practical implication of “A continuum, not a score” and apply it to one live DHS decision connected to Anti-Racism as Ordinary Work. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: How should the team use the concept? Document a next step for A continuum, not a score: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed. Crossroads, rebuilt for an agency that defaults to sameness-as-fairness As an institution improves anti-racist effort, it moves along an action continuum toward an anti-racist, multicultural organization. The map runs: monocultural → multicultural → anti-racist → anti-racist multicultural. Differences seen as deficits → tolerated → seen as assets.
This program does not score employees. The continuum is a reading of systems — policies, teaching, decision-making, who holds power. An agency can be in different stages toward different communities at the same time. Ask: what is this unit actually doing? Whom did we consult?
You do not IDI the building. You read the decision, the hire, and the rule.
Six stages — Jackson, Hardiman, Crossroads 1 — Exclusive Open exclusion or segregation. Racist status quo as policy. Dominant-group power maintained in the open.
2 — Club A limited number of “token” people allowed in with the “right” views. “We don’t have a problem.” Business as usual is the White norm.
3 — Compliance Official multicultural policy. Open doors. Recruitment onto committees. Little change in culture, policy, or decision-making. Tokens must assimilate.
4 — Affirming Names systemic racism. Trains. Recruits. Builds some accountability. Identity as anti-racist. White advantage in structure still largely intact.
5 — Transforming Audits and restructures institutional life. Inclusive decision-making and power-sharing. Anti-racist diversity as an asset, not a program.
6 — Fully inclusive A future vision — not a claim. Full participation and shared power. Allies against other oppressions. Work beyond the building.
Put this lesson to work What you can change You control whether a continuum, not a score changes a live DHS process connected to Anti-Racism as Ordinary Work or remains information on a page.
What to watch for The team completes the learning, keeps the same default, assigns no owner, and never checks who carries the burden.
Your next step Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Carry this forward The institution can sit in more than one stage at once. You do not sit people.
You control whether a continuum, not a score changes a live DHS process connected to Anti-Racism as Ordinary Work or remains information on a page.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, a knowledge-check response and a saved one-minute commitment.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
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