Hello All,
There is something disconcerting about wanting to know who is coming to your museum, as opposed to whom
you should be going to. (this is all my opinion.) Step one should be reading or listening to any of Robin DiAngelo's work on White Fragility. Then instead of posturing like having to gain power with information, or a museum that is entitled to visitors, or profiling all of your visitors, (Why?) this would give you the opportunity to engage folks in THEIR community. (And I'm not talking about a poster at a bus stop.) What community or neighbourhood you decide to go into will determine who you want to engage with, which will be telling. Engagement happens with people talking with people. (i.e. Joan Rivers: "Can we talk?") Individuals engage. And people are people. Then profiling won't matter that much would it? Why? Because there would be a rainbow of people in your museum. And one more thing: There is only one "race" - that is the human race, but many cultures. And those cultures should never be called by a color. "Race" was a word stupidly coined in the 18th Century. I am Sicilian and Croatian American. That is my heritage. My skin tone doesn't matter, but it's not "white." I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but we have to get beyond diversity talk and having a need for a "Diversity Director."??? See or hear Robin DiAngelo, then check the list below. Then reverse your necessity of needing profile information on your clients to THEM needing profile information on the employees at your museum like: "Employees who speak Spanish? French? Creole? Tagalog? Somali? Oromo? American Sign Language?" Is your staff totally multicultural? Engage.
Paul Novosel
Diversity Word List
ac·cul·tur·a·tion (ə-kŭl′chə-rā′shən)
N. 1. The modification of the culture of a group or individual as a result of contact with a different culture. 2. The process by which the culture of a particular society is instilled in a human from infancy onward. Euro-American rappers.
ac·cul′tur·a′tion·al adj.
ac·cul′tur·a′tive adj.
ac•cul•tur•a•tion (əˌkʌl tʃəˈreɪ ʃən)
n.1. the process of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group, esp. a dominant one. 2. a restructuring or blending of cultures resulting from this.
Acculturated - modification - modification of the culture of a group or
individual as a result of contact with a different culture
Afro-cultural
Afrocultural
Afro-dominant
Ancestry
Anticultural
Afrocentric
Asiacentric
African roots
African heritage
African-American,
African-Cuban,
American
Anglo-American
Anticulturalism's shared response
Anticulturalist - not racist
Afro-European
Anti-European-Americanism
Bias
Cultural bias
Cross-cultural bias
Heritage bias
Cultural cleansing
Cross-cultural
Cross-cultural interactions
Cross-culturality
Culturally inclusive
Cultural humility
Culturally divisive
Culturally Diverse
Culture exclusive.
Cultural Adaptation
Countercultural
Cultural Engagement
Cultural tolerance
Cultural inclusivity
Cultural Equality
Chauvinism - an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex
Cape Verdian-American
Disassembly of Euro-American Superiority
Diversity
Disadvantaged
Euro-dominant
Afro-dominant
Euro-American Advantage
Euro-American fragility
Euro-American
Eurocentric
Eurocentrism \ˌyu̇r-ə-ˈsen-ˌtri-zəm \ noun
Eurocentrist \ˌyu̇r-ə-ˈsen-trist \ noun
Eurocultural
Euro-American (Eur-Am - U-ram)
Euro-American privilege
Euro-privilege
Engagement
Enculturated - learns the traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices
and values -
enculturation noun
en·cul·tur·a·tion | \ in-ˌkəl-chə-ˈrā-shən , (ˌ)en- \
Definition of Enculturation
: the process by which an individual learns the traditional content of a culture and assimilates its practices and values
Gender Diversity
Inclusive cultural
Inculturated has to do with religion. Adapting a culture's liturgy to another culture
in·cul·tur·ate (ĭn-kŭl′chə-rāt′)
tr.v. in·cul·tur·at·ed, in·cul·tur·at·ing, in·cul·tur·ates
To adapt (the public practice of a religion) to the specific conditions of a given culture in order to facilitate that culture's acceptance of the religion.
Intercultural engagement
Intercultural - Of, relating to, involving, or representing different cultures:
an intercultural marriage.
Latino Centric
Multicultural - 1. Of, relating to, or including several cultures.
2. Of or relating to a social or educational theory that encourages interest in many cultures within a society rather than in only a mainstream culture.
Multiculturally inclusive
Multiculturality
multiculturalism \-rə-ˌli-zəm \ noun
multiculturalist \-rə-list \ noun or adjective
multiculturally \-rə-lē \ adverb
Non-Hispanic Americans
Nordic
North European American
Normativity
Procultural
Ur-Am - European American
Af-Am - African American
An-Am - Anglo-American
Nor-Am - Nordic American
White fragility
Other Politically Correct Culture Names and Notions
Chilean
Irish
German, French, etc.
Indian American, French-American, etc.
Inuit - not Alaskan
Roma - Travelers, not Gypsies
Italian-American, Italo-Americans
Inculturating Euro-American ballet companies…
East European American
Russian-American
Dominican
Cuban
Haitian
Chinese Americans
Terms of Sexual Preference
OGL - Other gender loving
SGL - Same gender loving
MOC - Mixed Gender Couple
Cisgender
THE Following taken from:
http://itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2013/01/a-comprehensive-list-of-lgbtq-term-definitions/advocate
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Paul Novosel, archivist/musician
New York
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-31-2018 05:39 PM
From: Alexander Lussenhop
Subject: Tracking Visitor Diversity
Hi Lenora,
I'm on the Research Team for a project called the Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies (COVES), and our members track demographics as part of our project. Some demographics we collect related to diversity, equity, access, and inclusion are race/ethnicity, household income, disability, education level, gender, and LGBT identification. We also collect ZIP codes, but we don't use ZIP code as a proxy for any demographic traits. Several member institutions have used these data as you describe, to get an understanding of "baseline" demographic data and to start to compare those demographics to those of their local region.
We're a collaboration of (currently) 22 museums and science centers all using a shared survey instrument to collect data about our public visitors and their experiences. We do this using an exit survey protocol, with an electronic survey that visitors fill out on a tablet. Our project staff trains staff at our member institutions to collect the data themselves, and we provide guidance on things like how to do random sampling and how many surveys to collect to ensure a representative sample.
We just released a field-wide report on our most recent year of aggregated data (July 2017-June 2018), which you can check out here.
If you or anyone else here has further questions, feel free to post them or email us at info@understandingvisitors.org. If anyone is interested in joining our collaboration, please get in touch, as we are actively recruitng more members.
Best,
Alex
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Alexander Lussenhop
Research and Evaluation Associate
Museum of Science
Boston MA
Original Message:
Sent: 10-31-2018 12:30 PM
From: Lenora Brown
Subject: Tracking Visitor Diversity
I haven't found that people do more than record zip codes (this is what we currently do)...which leads to assumptions regarding diversity, but it does clearly indicate where visitors live. My concern is questioning/surveying visitors during their visit. Are some of you doing that? Considering that? Pros? Cons?
Have you heard of people doing other things? Lenora
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Lenora Brown
Manager of Community Engagement
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Cleveland OH
Original Message:
Sent: 10-30-2018 03:08 PM
From: Lenora Brown
Subject: Tracking Visitor Diversity
I am researching how (or if) museums track the diversity of their visitors as well as members. This is in an effort to create a baseline for our community engagement area...so that we can know where we started per se. Feel to free to post or PM at Lbrown@cmnh.org. Thank you.
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Lenora Brown
Manager of Community Engagement
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Cleveland OH
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