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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism for a keynote address by Prof. Iyko Day (Mount Holyoke College) at the inaugural annual Chloe Center symposium, Keywords for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism.
Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism as we prepare to launch the newest undergraduate major in the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences: Critical Diaspora Studies.
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to host Professor Paul Apostolidis (Government, London School of Economics), who will lead a workshop with undergraduate and graduate students on methods and approaches to studying labor and migration.
Book talk with the author, Josephine Quinn. Josephine Quinn is Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University, and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Worcester College, Oxford. She has degrees from Oxford and UC Berkeley, has taught in America, Italy and the UK, and co-directed the Tunisian-British archaeological excavations at Utica. She is […]
Through this event, we come together to ask: How can something that seems as simple, scientific, and natural–a desire for sweetness–be influenced by systems like slavery, colonialism, capitalism?
