Trump Chalkings

On the night of Friday April 8th, the University of California, San Diego campus was covered with anti-Mexican slogans chalked by supporters of presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Following a string of similar events throughout the country (including incidents at UC Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Riverside), slogans supporting Trump have persistently coincided with xenophobic attacks against underrepresented communities, specifically Latino, Black, Arab and Muslim students. The recent chalking incident at UCSD specifically targeted incoming admitted students of Mexican descent. The perpetrators chalked outside of the Raza Resource Centro, a resource center collaborating in the weekend-long admission Triton Day welcoming celebration for incoming students (Lumumba-Zapata Collective, 2016).

• April 8, 2016

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Online exhibit

• Tell Us How UC It Project website

Lumumba-Zapata Collective. (2016, May 2). Whose university? UCSD's racial climate and the making of student minorities. San Diego Free Press. Retrieved from http://sandiegofreepress.org/2016/05/whose-university-ucsds-racial-climate-and-the-making-of-student-minorities/
Image: [Untitled digital image of build a wall, Trump chalkings]. (2016, May 2) San Diego Free Press. Retrieved from http://sandiegofreepress.org/2016/05/whose-university-ucsds-racial-climate-and-the-making-of-student-minorities/

• San Diego Free Press

Under copyright (US)

Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.

Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.

UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)

2023-07-11