#SAYTHEIRNAME Series: Part Two

Photo Source: UCLA study suggests researchers look more closely at connections between names and race

THE PENALIZATION OF NAMES

There is a growing body of research that shows racial and ethnic discrimination in the job market related to names connected to a cultural identity that is non-white. According to a 2016 two-year study in Administrative Science Quarterly, Whitened Resumes: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market, resumes that contained minority racial cues, such as a distinctively Black or…