The US Department of Justice reported today that UC San Diego has reached a settlement with the Departments of Justice and Education over the racial incidents in February 2010 associated with the now infamous “Compton Cookout“. The settlement arose from an investigation by these Departments over complaints of racial harassment against African-American students on campus, in violation […]
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Post-“Compton Cookout” UCSD: Jorge Mariscal reflects on what has (not) changed
The following is reproduced from the UCSD Guardian: Two Years Later, UCSD Still Has Much to Learn from Student Struggles By Jorge Mariscal Department of Literature “No great victories are won in a war for transformation…without total participation. Less than this will not create a new society; it will only evoke more sophisticated token amelioration,” […]