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RIC Film Series: Calls From Home, featuring Q+A with director Sylvia Ryerson

An intimate portrait of rural prison expansion, Calls From Home documents WMMT-FM’s longstanding radio show that sends familial messages of love over public airwaves to reach people incarcerated in Central Appalachia.

Directed by Sylvia Ryerson, a former DJ for the show, the film portrays the many forms of distance that rural prison building creates—and the ceaseless search to end this system of racialized mass incarceration and family separation.

Racial Profiling and the China Initiative: Challenges Facing Academics of Chinese Descent and Those Who Collaborate with Scientists in China

Collaborating with academics in China was once encouraged by the US government and universities. As tension between the two countries rises rapidly, those who do collaborate are under heightened scrutiny by the U.S. federal government. This talk will examine the DOJ’s unfair targeting of academics of Chinese descent and those who collaborate with scientists in China.

American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation

The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship are pleased to welcome Professor Roberto Saba (History, Wesleyan University) for a conversation about his recent book, American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation.

Turkey-Syria Earthquake: A teach-in

The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship at Johns Hopkins University presents a panel discussion on the Turkey-Syria Earthquake, featuring scholars and community organizers from the region. Since February 6, 2023, there has been widespread destruction and loss of life across Southeastern Turkey and Syria. One month on, this panel will discuss the political and […]

A 1981 Chosŏn Ilbo article titled: “The Color of Their Skin May Be Different but They Are Still Korean.” The grainy black and white photograph depicts nine mixed race Korean adults in a gathering in the city of Pusan.

The “Mixed Blood” Problem in Cold War South Korea

The post Korean War era observed the presence of numerous US military bases. Mixed race Korean children of these decades were often stigmatized as the children of military sex workers and straddled the legal and social borders of citizenship between an ethnic nationalist Korea and a rising superpower that was America. This talk explores mixed and non-mixed Korean narratives of the cold war era and reflect a postwar Korean society that grappled with concepts of citizenship, belonging, and responsibility.

Image of Black protesters with banner and signs marching in the street (from Mangrove film)

RIC Film Series: Mangrove (Small Axe)

Join the third event in the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship's spring 2023 film series "Global Views on Racism and Resistance," a screening of Steve McQueen's 2020 film Mangrove, in his Small Axe collection.

Panel on Workers' Rights with Chris Smalls, depicting Smalls as well as logos for Unite Here and TRU

Foreign Affairs Symposium: Panel on Workers’ Rights, featuring Chris Smalls

The JHU Foreign Affairs Symposium is pleased to announce a panel on workers' rights, featuring Chris Smalls. He will be joined by moderator Maximillian Alvarez (The Real News) and a representative from the JHU dining worker union, Unite Here, and a representative from the JHU graduate worker union, TRU-UE.

The Politics of Racism and Antiracism in Japan

Scholarship on racial politics in Japan has tended to take a dichotomous view of Japan as either a culturally homogenous, racially exceptional society where racism does not exist or a perniciously racist one. This talk examines how racism and antiracism have interactively shaped modern Japan’s political development, focusing on national and international coalitions, social movements, empire, and postwar liberal democracy.

RIC Film Series: Even the Rain

Join the fourth event in the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship’s spring 2023 film series “Global Views on Racism and Resistance,” a screening of Icíar Bollaín’s 2010 film Even the Rain. The film will be introduced by Sheharyar Imran (PhD Candidate in Political Science) Even the Rain follows Mexican director Sebastián and a group of […]

Crowd of protesters on JHU campus
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What Comes Next: Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship after Affirmative Action

Over the past half-century, historically white universities have experimented with diversifying their student and faculty bodies within the U. S. Supreme Court’s increasingly narrow definition of affirmative action. In Summer 2023, the Court ended altogether the diversity regime it created. Now, universities must ask: what comes next?

Join us for brief presentations and a reception with food and drink to kick off this year’s programming, featuring RIC director Dr. N. D. B. Connolly, RIC graduate fellow Sheharyar Imran, and RIC undergraduate fellow Natalie Wang. 

Reparative Arts in Community Engagement (RACE) Conference

What are reparative arts? How we might chart a way forward in alleviating systemic harms and injustices by creating living monuments through staging, performance, and other ways of memorialization?