black-sounding names
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What It’s Like To Be a Black Woman Named Beckii
On Saturday, CNN published a lengthy piece of award-winning journalism on white people with black-sounding names. The insanely absurd story featured a collection of Caucasians (which is more than a “pinch of wypipo” but less than a “mob of lynchers”) ruminating about how uncomfortable it is living with a negro moniker. Yes, they literally did…
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LaKeisha, Where Art Thou? The Case for ‘Black Sounding’ Names
Recently I played host to my niece’s 5th-birthday party. It was a backyard paint-themed affair where all the babies were dressed like pint-size Picassos in smocks and berets and hyped up on confectioners’ sugar. It was somewhere between the dance-off and “Red light, green light” that I realized something. There were no Keishas here. There…
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Study Shows Discrimination Among Uber and Lyft Drivers
A study published Monday by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of Washington reveals that racial discrimination exists among Uber and Lyft drivers, Bloomberg reports. In Boston, drivers canceled rides for men with “black-sounding” names more than twice as often as for other men, according to the study. And…