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EARLY UPLOAD: A Black American History of Names (Patreon)

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2024-03-14 22:18:18

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2026-06

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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/

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A Black American History of Names

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