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EARLY UPLOAD: A Black American History of Names
Published: March 14th 2024, 10:18:18 pm
What are historic black names? Why are some black names considered ghetto? What are black girl names-- and why are so many of them so creative? What are black boy names? What is the importance of chosen names to marginalized and queer people? What does Beyonce mean? How do you pronounce Quvenzhane Wallis? Is Whoopi Goldberg Jewish? What celebrities have name changes? What celebrities changed their name? Why did Lesane Parish Crooks become Tupac Amaru Shakur? Did my mother name me after a Lexus?
A Black History of The 1990s and a sex history video are coming next week :D Enjoy! <3
Choose your favorite "old folks" names here: https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4014coll9/id/382
Sources and Further Reading
- The Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass
- https://theconversation.com/a-brief-history-of-black-names-from-perlie-to-latasha-130102
- https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18802/w18802.pdf
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01615440.2021.1893877
- https://www.salon.com/2008/08/25/creative_black_names/
- https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/15/us/white-black-names-blake/index.html
- https://www.businessinsider.com/racial-discrimination-the-job-market-study-black-names-applications-2021-7
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/25098702
- https://andscape.com/features/whats-in-a-black-name-400-years-of-context/
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/13/are-blacks-names-weird-or-are-you-just-racist
- https://www.americannamesociety.org/a-brief-history-of-black-names/
- https://news.osu.edu/distinctively-black-names-found-long-before-civil-war/
- https://abcnews.go.com/2020/top-20-whitest-blackest-names/story?id=2470131
- https://slate.com/business/2005/04/a-roshanda-by-any-other-name.html
- https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4014coll9/id/379/
- https://books.google.com/books/about/Black_Names_in_America_Origins_and_Usage.html?id=2j12AAAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description
- https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/recall-their-names-personal-identity-enslaved-south-carolinians
- https://www.uclahealth.org/news/a-black-sounding-name-makes-people-imagine-a-larger-more-dangerous-person-ucla-study-shows
- https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4014coll9/id/382
- https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/2004-bill-cosby-pound-cake-speech/
- https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w21625/w21625.pdf
- https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/niles-newbell-puckett/
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/many-african-american-last-names-hold-weight-black-history-rcna17267
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-names-a-resume-burden/
- https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/hr-magazine/study-suggests-bias-black-names-resumes
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/us/01race.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/weekinreview/06Luo.html
- https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1994/03/27/some-names-are-uniquely-african-american/
- https://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/family/parenting/babies/baby-name-trends-ga3.html
- https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tina-turners-name-wasnt-always-hers-but-she-fought-for-it
- https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/0002828042002561
- https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/racial-bias-hiring
- https://bcma.bowdoin.edu/antiquity/classical-names-and-concepts-used-in-the-service-of-slavery/