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I have high hopes for this article, but researching this topic is tedious and a slow process. Any help improving this article will be greatly appreciated! At this point, I mostly copied and pasted the African American names section from my other article " American names" It's reasonable for there to be some overlap, but I need more info and probably a rewrite to make it into its own article. Thanks! Bali88 ( talk) 19:55, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
is a "biblical name"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.101.38.36 ( talk) 00:11, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
As anyone who has read Freakonomics knows, the whole point of the study was not that such names give away the ethnicity of the job applicant, but that the applicant is from an impoverished background! They also point out that there are white "ghetto names" (such as Cody) and that those white applicants meet with similar rejection.
As Shakespeare wrote, "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose." The misrepresentation of such a pertinent study is an obscenity. This is a unilateral racist article. When I get my copy of Freakonomics back (for quotation purposes) I will be back to correct this. -- CousinJohn ( talk) 16:58, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
He's absolutely right, you completely mischaracterized the article. Here's from the article:
"However, when they carefully compared black- and white-named babies who were similar on other factors—like the economic conditions of their hometown or their mother's education level—the effect disappeared. In other words, it wasn't the black names themselves that were causing negative outcomes for African-Americans, it was the fact that minorities with "blacker" names also tended to be among the most socioeconomically disadvantaged."
It makes the exact opposite point you were trying to make. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.139.61.41 ( talk) 16:39, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Tanisha, Malik..(angel in Arabic), and AAliyah like Rihanna are all Arabic/Islamic. But most of these African American names have Afro-Asiatic roots Sha ne qua. (however it is spelt). La Ti Shah. While some of them are popular in Africa, they are all 100% Islamic Africa. And unlike America there is no cross-religious usage. -- Inayity ( talk) 17:23, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
I mean is that not almost exclusively, like Jamal, associated with African Americans?-- Inayity ( talk) 17:25, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
A discussion thread about the reliability and notability of this author and his pages is taking place at Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard#Owen 'Alik Shahadah, please comment there so we can get a final consensus. Rupert Loup ( talk) 12:06, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
There is something that is not explained in this article. Why many African American female names begin with the (French?) prefix "la"? In France, it was used in rural areas (and sometimes it is even a bit pejorative), and not much used nowadays, to use a "la" before the female name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:8A8D:FE80:486:EE3:25B8:4237 ( talk) 16:59, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Whatever people may think about this term, I'm surprised to find no mention of it in the article, but only on this talk page. Surely attitudes to perceived "ghetto names", including Cosby's comments on them, need at least some mention. 188.230.240.75 ( talk) 18:36, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
The Arabic names used by some African Americans aren't exclusively Muslim, but they are exclusively Arabic, so it seems misleading to simply call them "Muslim namesQ, as some of them are also used by both Christian African Americans as well as Christian Arabs. FunkMonk ( talk) 17:58, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
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There are differing perspectives on when distinctive African-American naming practices started. The body needs to address this. Thenightaway ( talk) 22:33, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
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