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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 […]

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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?

Photo of Baltimore Chinatown streetscape with rowhouses

Community-Engaged Research in Critical Diaspora Studies (part 1)

Please join the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a conversation about community-engaged learning, research, and internships for undergraduate students. Speakers will emphasize their own experiences with community-engaged learning, how it has shaped their intellectual development, and why it has been crucial to their educational experience.

Young Black surgeon Vivien Thomas in apron with medical equipment behind him
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Racism and Repair at and beyond Johns Hopkins University

Over the past three years, research teams funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and composed of leading experts have been excavating how academic departments in the medical sciences, social sciences, and humanities at Johns Hopkins University both created racist forms of knowledge and expertise and were reshaped by anti-racist and desegregation struggles in the twentieth century.

Join us for a symposium that will mark the first public presentation of the findings of these research teams.

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Uproot: Music from Asia Minor

The Greek Chamber Music Project (GCMP) presents Uproot, a powerful program of Greek songs from Asia Minor. GCMP performs modern arrangements of Greek music from the region, celebrating this vibrant musical heritage and capturing the refugee experience through song. Uproot weaves histories and personal stories throughout, generating a universal dialogue about the impact of forced migration and building a bridge to the experience of modern-day refugees.

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Kurdish Women Politicians Write from Prison 

The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins University present a discussion of the recently published volume The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics (Pluto).