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1. Women’s Marital Surname Change by Bride’s Age and Jurisdiction of Residence: A Replication

Author

Melanie MacEacheron

Subjects
ethnonym, race, USA, anthroponym, US Census, Civil Rights, Philology. Linguistics, P1-1091
Abstract

Hyphenating or keeping premarital surname for all U.S. destination brides marrying in Hawai’i in 2010 was highly, positively correlated with a state-level women’s income measure (r = .78, p < .000) and the analogous statistic for men (r = .64, p < .000), by bride’s state of residence. The women’s measure, only, remained significant when both predictors were used, together, to predict retention/hyphenation (i.e., under regression of both predictors). The interaction of state Gini coefficient and the women’s income measure was positively predictive in a regression including the interaction components as predictors (adjusted-R2 = .66). None of several other predictors suggested by previous research or related to Gini index or income, testable using available, state-level data, were predictive (under regression) alongside the women’s income measure. The older the bride, from any jurisdiction, the more likely she is to hyphenate or keep her surname (χ2 for linear trend = 1754.65, p < .000). These analyses comprise a nearly direct replication of previous work, adding novel analyses. Taken together, the original and replicated study may show evidence consistent with a general practice of women taking into account local economic factors, in marital surname decision-making.

Published
2020
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2. Black Rising: An Editorial Note on the Increasing Popularity of a US American Racial Ethnonym

Author

I. M. Nick

Subjects
Linguistics and Language, education.field_of_study, media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, 050109 social psychology, Criminology, Toponymy, Racism, Popularity, Economic Justice, 050105 experimental psychology, Language and Linguistics, Wrongful death, Politics, Ethnonym, Civil rights, Political science, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, education, Demography, media_common
Abstract

In historic protests sparked by the wrongful deaths of US civilians, demonstrators have taken to the streets in record numbers demanding justice and an end to institutionalized racism. US media coverage of this movement has frequently utilized the racial ethnonym Black as opposed to African(-)American. As this note discusses, this choice in nomenclature may not only be due to the increasing prominence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. It may also be indicative of earlier, large-scale shifts in autonymy. This note presents some of the demographic, linguistic, and sociopolitical factors that may well have played a role in the rising use of Black as both an ethnoracial and political identifier.

Published
2020
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3. Racial and Gender Differences in Diversity of First Names

Author

Herbert Barry III and Aylene S Harper

Subjects
ETHNONYM, BUSHMAN NAME, SAN NAME, KHOISAN ETHNONYM, POPULAR ETYMOLOGY, ONOMASTIC METHOD, Philology. Linguistics, P1-1091
Abstract

Abstract First names and the number of individuals given each name were recorded on three populations, born in Pennsylvania in 1990, 1995, and 2000. Four categories of people were “black” females, “white” females, “black” males, and “white” males. Diversity of the name choices was measured by the 50 percent rank frequency, which divides the population equally between the individuals with more frequent and less frequent names. Diversity was highest for “black” females and lowest for “white” males. For all four categories of people, diversity increased progressively from 1990 to 1995 and from 1995 to 2000. Feminine phonetic attributes also were most frequent for “black” females and least frequent for “white” males. Racial divergence in choices of names was indicated by a smaller number of names in 2000 than in 1990 that were among the fifty most frequent for both “blacks” and “whites.”

Published
2010
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4. What’s in a Demonym? A Note on a New and Uplifting Ethnonym

Author

Jan Tent

Subjects
Indian subcontinent, Linguistics and Language, education.field_of_study, History, Ethnonym, Demonym, Population, Ethnic group, Ethnology, education, Language and Linguistics, Demography
Abstract

Ethnicity is all important in Fiji, and labels for the different ethnic groups are a constant source of debate. A significant proportion of Fiji’s population are descendants of indentured laborers from the Indian subcontinent. An appropriate name for these citizens has for a long time been a contentious issue. In 2017 a new name was proposed; one that signals the beginning of a change in attitude. This note reports on the new name.

Published
2018
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5. The Ethnonym Geordie in North East England

Author

Michael Pearce

Subjects
Linguistics and Language, History, sub_englishlanguageandliterature, Ethnonym, Media studies, Ethnology, Onomastics, North east, Language and Linguistics, Demography, Newspaper
Abstract

What are the origins and history of the ethnonym Geordie in North East England? How does this history — which according to some authorities has never adequately been explained — help us to understand its current usage and meanings? I attempt to answer these questions by drawing on evidence from a range of sources (including newly available material in the British Newspaper Archive).

Published
2015
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6. The Ethnonyms ≠Aunin, Topnaars, and !Naranin

Author

Peter E. Raper

Subjects
Linguistics and Language, Geography, Ethnonym, Acanthosicyos, biology, Fishing, Ethnology, biology.organism_classification, Livelihood, Archaeology, Language and Linguistics, Demography
Abstract

The ≠Aunin, also called Topnaars and !Naranin, are an exceptional people, currently regarded as Nama (Khoikhoi) but thought to be originally San (Bushmen). They inhabit the Walvis Bay area and Kuiseb Valley in Namibia, and live primarily from fishing, and from harvesting the seeds of !nara (Acanthosicyos horrida) plants. Various explanations of the names ≠Aunin and Topnaars have been encountered, the most popular linking the former to the Khoikhoi (Nama) word ≠aub “peak, top, point, pinnacle,” etc., and the latter to the English, Dutch, and Afrikaans word top and the Dutch and Afrikaans substantive ending -naar. The present paper postulates on linguistic and anthropological grounds that the name ≠Aunin reflects the unique means of livelihood of these people by fishing.

Published
2010
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