The Negro Slave Family

Frazier, E. Franklin

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“…Engerman [1978] notes that names play an important role in our understanding of African American social development, and yet they remain under-analyzed, a missing piece of the historical scholarship. Histories of the African American family and social experience, and histories of the South in general, such as the seminal works of Brawley [1921], Blassingame [1972], Jones [1985], Frazier [1930Frazier [ , 1939, Litwack [1979,1998], Foner [1988], Levine [1978], Woodward [1951], Tindall [1952Tindall [ , 1967, and Franklin [1980], make little mention of African American naming patterns.…”

Section: Racialized Names In Historymentioning

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Distinctively black names in the American past

Cook

Logan²,

Parman

2014

Explorations in Economic History

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We document the existence of a distinctive national naming pattern for African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We use census records to identify a set of high-frequency names among African Americans that were unlikely to be held by whites. We confirm the distinctiveness of the names using over five million death certificates from Alabama, Illinois and North Carolina from the early twentieth century. The names we identify in the census records are similarly distinctive in these three independent data sources. Surprisingly, approximately the same percentage of African Americans had "black names" historically as they do today. No name that we identify as a historical black name, however, is a contemporary black name. The literature has assumed that black names are a product of the Civil Rights Movement, yet our results suggest that they are a long-standing cultural norm among African Americans. This is the first evidence that distinctively racialized names existed long before the Civil Rights Era, establishing a new fact in the historical literature.

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Section: Racialized Names In Historymentioning

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Distinctively black names in the American past

Cook

Logan²,

Parman

2014

Explorations in Economic History

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“…T he role fatherhood plays toward the optimal health of the mother and baby has been well documented, and for an analysis of the history of this field in the United States, we refer readers to LaRossa's work on the social and political history of modern fatherhood. 1 The authors' niche is at the intersection of American fatherhood and the African American/Black culture, whose roles of fatherhood have, as is well known, been negatively influenced by the dominant, white male culture of the United States, which, for centuries, subjected the Black father to roles of helplessness as chattel (slaves), 2 and for centuries, after found legal and extrajudicial means to terrorize the Black male among his woman and children, leading to intense psychological and psychosocial confusion as to his role in his community and family.…”

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Breastfeeding Communities for Fatherhood: Laying the Groundwork for the Black Fatherhood, Brotherhood, and Manhood Movement

Bugg

2021

Breastfeeding Medicine

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The role fathers play in the lives of their children is, as any behavior, dependent on their knowledge of factors influencing the health and safety of children and the societal context in which those fathers live, work, and worship. In the context of maternal and child health, the role of supportive partners of the mother dramatically strengthens the ability of the mother to set and achieve appropriate early life goals for their child, including wise nutritional choices and infant safety. Reaching Our Brothers Everywhere (ROBE) developed in 2014 as an independently integrated program of Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere, Inc. (ROSE), with the mission of educating, equipping, and empowering men to assist in the ROSE effort of increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration rates, primarily in the Black community, by educating men of the numerous health, nutritional, social, and economic benefits of breastfeeding. Similarly, through education about the national Safe Sleep campaign, ROBE hopes to assist in the mitigation of infant mortality rates. Then, this article seeks to elucidate the modern Black Fatherhood Movement, in which ROBE observes and interacts, and to lay out axioms from the natural and social sciences that will allow us to achieve strengthened American family structures through transformative change, using the medium of Fatherhood work.

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“…Finding the presence of an antebellum Black naming pattern is a novel advance in the quantitative history of Afrian American culture. Since the earliest histories of African American kinship (Frazier 1930), scholars have investigated ways in which Black culture formed and persisted via family bonds. Names are likely one of those forms of cultural transmission.…”

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The antebellum roots of distinctively black names

Logan

Cook

Parman

2021

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdiscipli

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This paper explores the existence of distinctively Black names in the antebellum era. Building on recent research that documents the existence of a national naming pattern for African American males in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Cook, Logan, and Parman, Explorations in Economic History 53:64-82, 2014), we analyze three distinct and novel antebellum data sources and uncover three stylized facts. 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. Taken together, these facts provide support for the claim that Black naming patterns existed in the antebellum era and that racial distinctiveness in naming patterns was an established practice well before Emancipation. These findings further challenge the view that Black names are a product of twentieth century phenomena such as the Civil Rights Movement.

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The Negro Slave Family

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Distinctively black names in the American past

Distinctively black names in the American past

Breastfeeding Communities for Fatherhood: Laying the Groundwork for the Black Fatherhood, Brotherhood, and Manhood Movement

The antebellum roots of distinctively black names

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