The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

By Roland G. Fryer, Steven D. Levitt. 2004

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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A Survey of Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism in NLP (2021, background): “For example, names drawn from the U.S. census generalize poorly to Twitter (Wood-Doughty et al., 2018), and names common among Black and white children were not distinctly different prior to the 1970s (Fryer Jr and Levitt, 2004; Sweeney, 2013).”
Black Names, Immigrant Names: Navigating Race and Ethnicity Through Personal Names (2019, background): “…African American Communities African Americans have been widely studied in the United States in regard to naming practices (Brown & Lively, 2012; Figolo, 2005; Fryer & Levitt, 2004; Kambon & Yeboah, 2019), and even the name of the ethnic group has been problematized over the years (Martin, 1991).”
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Zahra or Zoe, Arjun or Andrew? Bicultural Baby Names Reflect Identity and Pragmatic Concerns (background): “For instance, the increase in the use of African American names by Blacks in the United States after the 1960s is usually interpreted as a voluntary affirmation of a separate and unique Black identity (Fryer & Levitt, 2004), reflecting a desire to go back to one’s roots (Lieberson & Mikelson, 1995).”
Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent (2010, background): “In fact, there is no evidence at all that more intelligent individuals are more likely to prefer untraditional names for their children (Fryer and Levitt 2004; Lieberson and Bell 1992).”
The Geometry of Culture: Analyzing the Meanings of Class through Word Embeddings (2018, methodology): “First names were sampled from lists of names found to be most predictive of belonging to an African American person and most predictive of belonging to a non-Hispanic white person for each sex from data of all children born in California from 1961 to 2000 (Fryer and Levitt 2004).”
Regular rates of popular culture change reflect random copying (2007, methodology): “The higher turnover rate for female names in each decade implies more innovation in naming girls, as is clear in other studies (see Fryer & Levitt, 2004; Levitt & Dubner, 2005, pp. 179–204; Lieberson, 2000).”
Race Effects on Ebay (2015, background): “…than “Emily” may reflect either the effect of race or the effect of low socioeconomic status (or the effect of race coupled with low socioeconomic status) (see Fryer and Levitt 2004).1 Our eBay study, by varying racial appearance in an internet auction in which there is simply no behavior,…”
Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Europe: homosexuality and physical appearance (2015, neutral): “[52] Fryer, R.”
Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building (2019, positive): “Using several indices akin to the “black name index” of Fryer and Levitt (2004), we find that parents give their children less ethnically distinctive names in villages with greater F and lower P . Furthermore, polarization exhibits adverse effects on social capital. At the individual level, we use s”
The “name game”: affective and hiring reactions to first names (2008, background): “However, in looking at life outcomes, Fryer and Levitt (2004) found that distinctly African ‐ American names are unrelated to the life outcomes, after including controls for education, education of parents, age of mother, marital status of mother, and other factors.”