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Compton Cookout, the Glossary

The Compton Cookout was an off-campus event hosted by several University of California, San Diego (UCSD) students and organized by several fraternities February 15, 2010.^[1]

14 relations: African Americans, Black History Month, Blackface, Dear White People, Dear White People (TV series), Dr. Seuss, Fraternities and sororities, Geisel Library, Ghetto, Ku Klux Klan, MEChA, Price Center, SFGate, University of California, San Diego.
Anti-black racism in California

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Black History Month

Black History Month is an annual observance originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month and was formerly known as Negro History Month before 1976.

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Blackface

Blackface is the practice of performers using burnt cork or theatrical makeup to portray a caricature of black people on stage or in entertainment.

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Dear White People

Dear White People is a 2014 American satirical dark comedy-drama film written, directed and co-produced by Justin Simien.

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Dear White People is an American comedy-drama television series on Netflix that follows several black college students at an Ivy League institution (the fictional Winchester University), touching on issues surrounding modern American race relations from a politically progressive perspective.

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Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel (. Random House Unabridged Dictionary. in the Webster's Dictionary March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author and cartoonist.

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Fraternities and sororities

In North America, fraternities and sororities (fraternitas and sororitas|lit.

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Geisel Library

Geisel Library is the main library building of the University of California, San Diego.

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Ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.

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MEChA

M.E.Ch.A. (Spanish: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán; "Chicano Student Movement of Aztlán") is a US-based organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action.

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Price Center

Price Center is a student center located in the center of the University of California San Diego campus, just south of Geisel Library.

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SFGate

SFGate is a news website based out of San Francisco, California, covering news, culture, travel, food, politics and sports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hawaii and California.

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