The JHU News-Letter has published an article about the launch of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism, featuring Graduate Fellow Sheharyar Imran and Undergraduate Fellow Natalie Wang. Read the article here.

After the “Who’s Chloe?” launch event, News-Letter News & Features Editor Aimee Cho interviewed Imran and Wang, as well as Chloe Center Director Dr. Stuart Schrader, to learn about the plans for the center’s growth and expansion. Cho focused on the proposed Critical Diaspora Studies major, emphasizing the participatory, “ground-up” design of the new academic program.

Imran explained the origins of the Critical Diaspora Studies initiative, in the confluence of protests against anti-Black and anti-Asian racism in 2020 and 2021: “The idea was how we think about these processes together, not as separate. How do we think about the entanglements, the differences in oppression against Black and Asian people, and the solidarity across these differences? What does it look like in Baltimore?”

In turn, Wang also highlighted the importance of thinking both globally and locally, plotting Baltimore at the center of the Critical Diaspora Studies map. “It was important to us that the major was Baltimore-specific and dealt with the different dynamics that we have here in this region.”

See previous coverage of the Chloe Center’s 2024 launch via The Hub.