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The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary forum focusing on the intersections of empire, migration, and racial hierarchy. To explore these issues, the center hosts workshops and symposia, facilitates student publications, and offers research grants. The Chloe Center supports reparative freedom education among students, faculty, and staff on campus and across Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI give and bequeath to my servant woman Chloe the sum of one thousand dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014The Last Will and Testament of Mr. Johns Hopkins<\/em> (1873)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The historical record remains unclear about Chloe\u2019s last name. It\u2019s listed variously in documents as Jotsy, Dodson, or Johnson. She may have been daughter to a teenage migrant from the Virgin Islands, and she seems, at least, to have been born in Baltimore. Beyond what can be inferred, historians know she lived as a black woman and remained in the employ of Mr. Johns Hopkins between at least 1850 and his death in 1873. In Mr. Hopkins\u2019s available Last Will and Testament, the woman named only \u201cChloe\u201d received a bequest of $1,000. This very same document set aside $7 million establishing the Johns Hopkins institutions. According to census records, it appears, further, that Chloe never gained the ability to read or write. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism has adopted Chloe\u2019s name because it is a research center committed to expanding social and civic literacy, to unmasking the workings of racism across the globe, to understanding the complexities of Johns Hopkins University\u2019s institutional legacies, and to highlighting the connectedness within and across communities of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To adopt the name Chloe is to honor her, but also to recognize a tragic but fitting absence in her erased family name. The vagueness around Chloe\u2019s possible migrant heritage and ancestry encapsulates the specificity of her personal history as a black Baltimorean, as well as the more general experience of working people who across generations and often great distances worked to build the nations, empires, and institutions of the modern world. Chloe\u2019s many unknowns affirm the Center\u2019s commitment to search and<\/em> research. They cement its bond to the history and responsibilities of Johns Hopkins as a global university. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The roots of the Chloe Center extend to 2006, when Political Science faculty members Michael Hanchard and Erin Aeran Chung founded the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC). It focused on providing a forum for graduate students to explore how racial hierarchies interact with migration flows to shape understandings of citizenship, debates on national identity, and practices of democratic inclusion and social exclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n RIC emerged at a critical period in both academic and world history, when the reconfiguration of the international political economy, migration flows, and political conflicts defied national and even regional solutions. The global dimensions of migratory flows in the last century created common dilemmas for countries in every region of the world, at various stages of development. In places as distinct as Japan, India, Britain, France, the United States, Brazil, and South Africa, governmental officials struggled to classify and incorporate new populations into existing, often outdated, structures while dominant, minority, and migrant groups negotiate the political, economic, and social challenges of increasing diversity amidst rapid change. RIC thus emphasized cross-regional comparisons, especially among societies and polities that are often overlooked in existing scholarship on race and ethnicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Over time, RIC grew to encompass additional disciplinary and methodological perspectives, bridging the humanities and social sciences to provide opportunities for students and faculty to convene on shared topics of interest. The program sponsored annual graduate conferences, bringing students from around the country and across the globe to Johns Hopkins, while also engaging in more localized programming, such as the annual Living Hopkins roundtable, which focused on pressing concerns in Baltimore and on campus, such as Black-Asian solidarity, the growing threat of white power violence, or rethinking Baltimore as an \u201cimmigrant city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graduate student training constituted a significant part of the teaching mission of RIC-affiliated faculty. Pre-dissertation, dissertation, and job market workshops offered by affiliated faculty provided our graduate students guidance and training to supplement existing resources available through their home departments as well as a structured environment for students in different disciplines to build a strong peer community based on overlapping intellectual interests and mutual accountability. Working groups, organized semi-autonomously, facilitated intensive and cross-disciplinary conversations on topics of shared interest, most notably, in recent years, the Anti-Racist Alliances working group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beginning in 2019, Nathan Connolly and Stuart Schrader became the director and associate director, respectively, of RIC. And since 2020 graduate fellow Sherharyar Imran has been an integral member of the team. During the campus closure due to Covid-19, this leadership team facilitated the publication of \u201cFreedom Education,\u201d a series of interviews<\/a> with prominent intellectuals in Public Books<\/em>, by Johns Hopkins graduate students. And it has been responsible for a wide range of unique and interdisciplinary\u2014or even postdisciplinary, as we like to say\u2014programming on campus and beyond. Programming themes have included Black-Asian Solidarities, Abolition Without Borders, and Freedom Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWho\u2019s Chloe?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
RIC Since 2020<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n