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Article: This person doesn't sound white: evidence of discrimination and laws to prevent it have failed to eradicate "talking while black" and other forms of linguistic racism.(culture)
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- Colorlines Magazine
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- September 22, 2003
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Kofi? Mani? Sule? Bijan?
Choosing a name for my future son has turned out to be much more complicated than I thought when I started searching online for possibilities.
Reza? Omar? Darius? Malcolm?
While I entertained the sound and significance of each potential moniker (Kofi is Twi for "born on Friday" what if he's born on Tuesday?), I started to wonder about the consequences of giving him an obviously "ethnic" name. It would reflect his multiracial heritage (black, Iranian, Irish, Hungarian) and hopefully contribute to his sense of cultural pride. But the name would also likely be misspelled, mispronounced, and misunderstood in a country that ...