Bridging the Understanding Gap and Building Racial Cohesion
Welcome to CRIL!
Your pathway to cultural intelligence and racial literacy
Culturally and Racially Intelligent Literacy (CRIL) focuses on closing the gap between what we think we understand about ourselves and those around. It aspires to inform each of us and to spark empathetic curiosity that grows us in compassion and intellectually.
We do this by exploring different cultures, true American history told through a variety of mediums, and most importantly, ourselves through reflection. This experience will be interactive, uncomfortable at times, enlightening, and participatory based. As most things, you get out of this immersion what you put into it. However, we hope you will find the consolidated information convenient and thought provoking, thus compelling you to remain engaged.
Our approach is based on sociological and psychological theory. Specifically, we leaned into Social Learning Theory and Conflict Theory while engineering the site to be engaging for all learner types.
We are proud to have developed a creative, collaborative, and open-minded Education Lab to grow together as a nation that will ensure our children, their children, and every generation to follow has a chance of equitable existence, liberty, and the true pursuit of happiness...
This can only be realized if we as adults decide to ACT NOW.
Welcome to your personal growth lab. Let’s commit to growing together and allowing humanity to prevail.
"We all Hate..."
US Data
Race in America
Asian: $88.2K
White; Not Hispanic: $68.7K
Hispanic: $51.8K
Native or Alaskan: $43.8K
Black: $41.9K
Black: 465 in every 100,000
Native or Alaskan: 274 in every 100,000
Hispanic: 134 in every 100,000
White; Not Hispanic: 133 in every 100,000
Why this matters...
Disproportionately, minorities bear the scar tissue of injustice and inequity which is revealed through the demographics of the US population through the lens of incarceration and the income gap. There are other areas of inequity, but we believe these two areas are the most devastating as they negatively influence family support structure and access to resources and education.
Thus, we must find ways to intentionally correct centuries of hate and misinformation established to maintain a false dominance and elitism
This can only happen through understanding ourselves and working to understand others better. Developing a propensity of empathic curiosity allows each of us to see others. It affords the mental space and the heart space to listen, watch, learn, and grow.
-Dr. Andrea M. Peters
What it takes to be racially literate
Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo