People select names; names don't select people.
Any sources on the growth of "black" names over time? It's interesting in that it seems like a cultural divergence that's increased in recent history. All the more interesting for being a class divergence as much as a race divergence.
My first exposure to the claim was by Fryer & Levitt (2004): https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/119/3/767/1938830.
Any sources on the growth of "black" names over time? It's interesting in that it seems like a cultural divergence that's increased in recent history. All the more interesting for being a class divergence as much as a race divergence.
My first exposure to the claim was by Fryer & Levitt (2004): https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/119/3/767/1938830.