Cultural Diversity Rubric

Source:

Price and Applebaum. 2021. "Measuring a Sense of Belonging at Museums and Cultural Centers." Curator: The Museum Journal. Vol. 65 / pp. 135-160.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cura.12454

Survey Items (measured on a 5 point scale (st. agree, agree, neutral, disagree, st. disagree)

• Thinking about your experience today, please answer the questions below:

  • • I had a sense of belonging at the museum.

    • I felt like an outsider at the museum.

    • Museum content reflected my community.

    • I felt comfortable at the museum as a person of my race and/or ethnicity (gender).

For each museum, the four questions will be filled out from five perspectives:

• African American

• Hispanic

• Native American

• White

• Female

Specific indicators will be identified that supports the belonging scores:

• Range of periods covered

  • Is precolonial period discussed?

  • Is recent period of Hispanic migrant labor discussed?

  • Is emphasis placed Jim Crow period (1900-1950s) of racial segregation segregation?

• Range of experiences portrayed

  • Is canning and processing highlighted?

  • Is labor of women highlighted?

  • Emphasis given to white male watermen?

• Scope of the narratives.

  • Is treatment of racial and ethnic minority groups in the maritime industry discussed?

  • Are unequal gender roles in maritime industry discussed?

  • Is current status of Native people discussed?

From the five perspectives, a single graphic Coxcomb Graph will be created that graphically displays the average belonging score for each cultural group.