Racism is a problem in the United States.
Identify your own bias and help others explore theirs with this graduated scale.
Last update: 3.6.2019 |
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Publishers Note:
Thank you to everyone who is interested in the Racism Scale or has found it useful!
Due to a recent tweet that included the scale, we've gotten a lot of inquiries, requests, suggestions and even some hate mail.
Creation and maintenance of this scale and website started as a labor of love for a small group of social justice activists
and was never meant to go viral. Now that is has, we are trying to keep up with the public demand for more information about the scale
as time allows.
Please consider making a donation to help keep it going. Thank you for your support.
You can also become a patron of the creator here.
Thank you to everyone who is interested in the Racism Scale or has found it useful!
Due to a recent tweet that included the scale, we've gotten a lot of inquiries, requests, suggestions and even some hate mail.
Creation and maintenance of this scale and website started as a labor of love for a small group of social justice activists
and was never meant to go viral. Now that is has, we are trying to keep up with the public demand for more information about the scale
as time allows.
Please consider making a donation to help keep it going. Thank you for your support.
You can also become a patron of the creator here.
For educators, activists and social justice advocates:
Feel free to use this graphic and PDF in your non/not for profit work as long as it's in a positive and constructive manner.
Please credit this page: www.racismscale.weebly.com To use this scale in a for profit manner, please contact us using the form below. |
"Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."
-Stephen Covey
About
This racism scale was created in July 2017 by
C Demnowicz after repeated conversations on social media showed a need for a visual method of explaining the many levels of racism in the US. It was created from the perspective of one white woman to another white woman, to help her recognize patterns of thought, speech and behavior that created a wall to understanding institutionalized and systemic racism in the USA. The scale was not meant to go viral but since has been shared over 10k times and has been used in several articles. Please continue sharing. The scale has been updated 5 times since creation, to expand and include more areas. It will be updated as needed to be most helpful. Help keep this work going by making a donation using the link below. |
See the progression of the scale:

race_scale_v1.5.pdf | |
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racism_scale_v2.0.pdf | |
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racism_scale_v2.1.pdf | |
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racism_scale_v2.5.pdf | |
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racism_scale_v3.0.pdf | |
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