Johns Hopkins University announced it would dive deeper into critical race theory by rebranding the focus of its “critical studies” center from “citizenship” to “colonialism.”
The elite school known for its medical programs announced late last week it would change the focus of its previous “Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship” to launch a brand new endeavor called the “Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism.”
“The shift in the center’s title from ‘citizenship’ to ‘colonialism’ will allow it to explore some topics it doesn’t currently cover, such as Indigenous studies, while continuing to research how people enact belonging and challenge power structures both individually and collectively,” the school stated in a press release Thursday.
The newly rebranded center brings with it a new major offered to students in Hopkins’s Zanvyl Krieger…
