Campus Climate & the Compton Cookout PDF

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Dimensions of Culture 3: Imagination with Solomon ...

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Campus Climate & the Compton Cookout - Do you feel like you belong on campus? Why? How? - How and why can murals create a sense of belonging? - Create a feeling/emotion and push for a movement - Give a reaffirmation that student do belong here - The cycle of representation and structure can actually stay - Transform a very sad building into a very empower statement and demonstrate the ethnicity around it - Placement on who gets to see it - Art becomes the tool of a contested tool - Black Legacy Mural in Price Center - What does it mean for students to create a sense of belonging and how does the school response to it - Both mural resulted as a response to an event - How is this mural a direct response to the events Compton Cookout? - Way of saying to heal the pain that they have to face - The Compton Cookout - A party that portray the stereotype of the “ghetto” and using tons of racial strides like the women dressing as nappy and men would use blackface - Represent the era of chattel slavery and what the Jim Crows laws were - Use of the banjo and the type of music that emerge out black culture - Gain social and cultural capital to control the racism that was at that time - Blackface came from Jim Crow which is the heart of segregating blacks and whites - Confronting the frat about the conversation about the lack of resources and what the history about it - Noose in Geisel was not intended as a threat - That level of racist environment is not experience that they had - Not all minority students have the same experience, care, lived shared - What does it mean to be majority minority on campus?...