Hakeem Jefferson

Pre-print now available! If race is socially constructed, we should study how. We do so by asking who counts as Black. Parentage, skin tone, party id, neighborhood, & spouse's race all shape perceived blackness. Who is doing the classifying matters too. A labor of love. osf.io/preprints/so...

The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

If the government can “deport” you for having beliefs they don’t like, none of us is free. Call it what you want, but it sure as shit ain’t democracy.

My partner @villarrecords.bsky.social has a new essay on Stephanie Syjuco's Present Tense (Roll Call), a 63-foot installation he curated at @bampfa.bsky.social. Essay & installation ask how we sustain learning when knowledge is under attack. On view thru 6/28. journalpanorama.org/article/call...

Fascinating work by my pal @naunovmartin.bsky.social. Add this to your Pride month reading list.

A brilliant and useful piece you should read by @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social.

Here are remarks I gave at the Keeping the Republic Conference at Notre Dame. If you’ve followed me over the past decade or so, my skepticism toward the field’s fixation on polarization likely won’t come as much of a surprise. But here they are, for what they’re worth. substack.com/home/post/p-...