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Cover Art: No one is just “black”. “Blackness”, however you define it, confers multitudes. It comes with intersecting identities, artful code-switching, overlapping cultures, and conflicting allegiances. It embodies complexity. And this image attempts to capture the myriad of distinctions that drive that complex reality. Every black person is different. They come in various sizes, shapes, personalities and ideologies. They are a vast array of mosaic facets informing a complete and whole identity not capable of being understood monolithically. Though in each person “blackness” does quite certainly reside, it cannot, should not and will not wholly define those individuals. —Cortney Robinson, Facets. ii
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Harvard Kennedy School Journal of African American Public Policy
2017-18 Volume
Editorial Staff Aaron Francis Editor-in-Chief Demarquin Johnsons Managing Editor Akina Younge Associate Editor Amyra Asamoah Associate Editor Ian Abbott Associate Editor
Acknowledgements Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government Debra Isaacson, Senior Associate Dean for Degree Programs and Student Affairs Richard Parker, Faculty Advisor Martha Foley, Publisher Sarah Abrams, Copy Editor Liliana Ballesteros, Graphic and Layout Designer Deloris Wilson, Alumni Advisor Derecka Purnell, Alumni Advisor
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Editor’s Note
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Running While Black
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Your National Anthem Clint Smith
Demarquin Johnson
Black and Food Insecure: Unpacking the Intersection of Race and Class
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Life as a Black Woman Brianna Kennedy
In League: A Critical Review of the National Football League’s Domestic Violence Policy and Toxic Black Masculinity Isis Freeman
Left Out”: 51 “Being Black Women in the Law
in the U.S. and Australia and the Effect on Black American Women’s Psyche
Marlysa D. Gamblin
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Callously Colorblind: A Critique of ColorNeutral Policies Through the Len
