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To: bgill; All
A Roshanda by Any Other Name

How do babies with super-black names fare?

From the article:

"Today, more than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white girls received that year. Even more remarkably, nearly 30 percent of the black girls are given a name that is unique among every baby, white and black, born that year in California. (There were also 228 babies named Unique during the 1990s alone, and one each of Uneek, Uneque, and Uneqqee; virtually all of them were black.)"

It makes it tough on teachers (and Scoutmasters). The only study of which I'm aware concludes there are "no negative relationship between having a distinctively Black name and later life outcomes after controlling for a child's circumstances at birth."

24 posted on 01/07/2012 3:24:45 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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To: Scoutmaster
Getting old. Forgot the link: A Roshanda by Any Other Name.
25 posted on 01/07/2012 3:28:47 PM PST by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it)
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