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Open Letter of Support for Professor Hakeem Jefferson

  Open Letter    We are aware that Stanford University faculty member and 2021-22 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University, Dr. Hakeem Jefferson, was the recent target of racial harassment and attacks, including paid advertisements against him and his work. (Stanford made a statement denouncing the paid advertising campaign  here . The Stanford Daily reported on the situation  here .)    We wish to join Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity ( CCSRE ) and Political Science Department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee ( Racial Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion Task Force ) condemnation of these racist attacks, in solidarity with Dr. Jefferson.    As an expert on Black politics and renowned public scholar, Dr. Jefferson endures these attacks that are decidedly not random, but rather motivated by racism. This means that he, and scholars like him, conduct their work within a world that