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Jan 23, 2020 · Many scholars believe that distinctively black names emerged from the civil rights movement, perhaps attributable to the Black Power movement and the later black cultural movement of the...
- Trevon Logan
Economic historians Lisa D. Cook, John Parman and Trevon Logan have found that distinctive African-American naming practices happened as early as in the Antebellum period (mid-1800s). [2] [3] However, those early names are no longer used by Black people.
Feb 24, 2022 · Much of what is known about Black surnames come from Civil War records. Formerly enslaved Africans were, typically, enlisted by white military administrators who filled out their initial...
Jan 23, 2020 · Most people recognize that there are first names given almost exclusively by black Americans to their children, such as Jamal and Latasha. While fodder for comedians and social commentary,...
However, research by Lisa D. Cook and colleagues has revealed evidence of racialized names from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They identified 21 distinctly Black male names, among them biblical classics such as Abraham and Moses, and word names including Freeman and Prince.
Mar 1, 2015 · Names are fascinating because of their origins, meanings, cultural and family histories. Black American naming traditions were dramatically influenced by slavery. The word slave comes from the...
First, the black names identified by Cook, Logan and Parman using post-Civil War data are common names among blacks before Emancipation. Second, these same black names are racially distinctive in the antebellum period. Third, the racial distinctiveness of the names increases from the early 1800s to the time of the Civil War.
