Graduate Workshop: Archival Methods in the Social Sciences

Please join this graduate workshop sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a conversation on how to adopt archival research methods in the social sciences. The discussion will focus on research on political economy, colonialism, and state power. Speakers will offer practical guidance as well theoretical and methodological insights. 

Filmscreening: Freedom Is A Big Word (2019)

THE PROGRAM IN LATIN AMERICAN, CARIBBEAN, AND LATINX STUDIES2023 LATIN AMERICAN FILM SERIES FREEDOM IS A BIG WORD, (Uruguay 2019)Tuesday, December 5th, 5 pmRemsen Hall 101 Comments by Stuart Schrader, Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship & Center for Africana Studies Guantanamo, then what? After 13 years, Mohammed, a 38-year-old Palestinian, is released from the […]

Lecture: Theorizing Racial Capitalism, by Prof. Julian Go

Location: Mergenthaler 526 THEORIZING RACIAL CAPITALISM The term “racial capitalism” has become a buzzword, used across the academic disciplines and even in the public sphere. Along with the rise of the term have come critics, eager to denounce it. This talk probes the racial capitalism idea for its promise as a social theory, delineating different […]

Who’s Chloe? A New Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism

Please join us for Who’s Chloe?, an event to celebrate the dawn of the next chapter of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship. This event will introduce the new Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism, explaining its origins and exciting plans, including the new Critical Diaspora Studies major.

Rachel Nolan: Until I Find You

The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism are pleased to welcome Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, for a conversation about her recent book, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala.

Organizing D.C.’s Migrant Communities in the Wake of Displacement

Join The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism for a roundtable discussion about how various communities of color in the D.C. area have experienced—and are organizing against—different yet resonant forms of transnational and local displacement.

Foreign Affairs Symposium: Reaching for the Stars: Ellen Ochoa

Please join us on Thursday, March 14th when the Foreign Affairs Symposium—in partnership with OLÉ, the Center for Diversity & Inclusion, the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism, and the Maryland Space Grant Consortium—will host Ellen Ochoa from 7-8 PM in Shriver Hall.

“Revolution in Our Lifetime”: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968–1974, Exhibit Opening and Panel Discussion

“Revolution in Our Lifetime”: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968–1974 explores the founding, programs, and everyday activities of the Black Panther Party’s Baltimore chapter, as well as the party’s ideological foundations and state repression it experienced. The exhibit further examines the party’s links to other political organizations in the city within the broader context of political organizing in the period. The exhibit features rare artifacts, documents, and photographs, as well as copies of the party’s newspaper.

Critical Diaspora Studies and U.S. Empire in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia: A Symposium of Student Research

The DMV region is home to refugee and migrant communities from across the globe. It is also home to the centerpieces of the national security state, including CIA headquarters, the Pentagon, numerous military bases, as well as outposts of all the major firms that comprise the military-industrial complex, plus three of the military’s university-affiliated research centers. This symposium of original student research inquires into the connections between these two aspects of regional development, as well as how migrants and their families grapple with continuing forms of slow violence such as racialized displacement.