How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies
How Black Are Lakisha and Jamal? Racial Perceptions from Names Used in Correspondence Audit Studies
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DOI：
10.15195/v4.a19
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发表时间：
2017-09-06
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Gaddis, S. Michael
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作者：
Gaddis, S. Michael
在线通信审计研究已成为审查种族歧视的主要方法。尽管审计使用独特的名字来表示种族，但很少有研究科学地检验有关从名字中感知种族的数据。被视为黑色或白色的不同名称可能会以不同的方式被感知。我进行了一项调查实验，要求受访者识别与一系列名字相关的种族。我更改了每个受访者的名字和姓氏。与受教育程度较低的黑人母亲起的名字（例如，达肖恩和塔尼莎）相比，受过高等教育的黑人母亲起的名字（例如杰伦和尼亚）更容易被视为黑人。结果表明，大量关于种族歧视的社会科学证据是在一个错误的假设下运作的，即所有黑人名字都是相似的，而通信审计的结果可能对名字选择很敏感。
Online correspondence audit studies have emerged as the primary method to examine racial discrimination. Although audits use distinctive names to signal race, few studies scientifically examine data regarding the perception of race from names. Different names treated as black or white may be perceived in heterogeneous ways. I conduct a survey experiment that asks respondents to identify the race they associate with a series of names. I alter the first names given to each respondent and inclusion of last names. Names more commonly given by highly educated black mothers (e.g., Jalen and Nia) are less likely to be perceived as black than names given by less educated black mothers (e.g., DaShawn and Tanisha). The results suggest that a large body of social science evidence on racial discrimination operates under a misguided assumption that all black names are alike, and the findings from correspondence audits are likely sensitive to name selection.