Comments on: Minority Report /2014/07/15/minority-report/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: Celia /2014/07/15/minority-report/comment-page-1/#comment-820287 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 05:07:31 +0000 /?p=11452#comment-820287 Interesting. I sometimes wonder about the reverse. Through marriage, I could potentially take on a Latina name (e.g. Celia Gonzales) but without ‘rights’ of ownership. Similarly, a friend of mine was invited to diversity weekend at an elite college–then the offer was rescinded when they realized that his ‘African female’ name actually belonged to an unusual white male.

There are many studies that evaluate our impressions of faces and names, but none I know of that really differentiate what happens when a “minority” has a “white” name or when a “white” person has a “minority” name. Does it matter whether name or face comes first? Why do these two things matter so much? Does this ‘mixed’ identity matter for diversity hiring, or among discriminatory hires? I have to imagine there are both setback and benefits–and many, many questions!

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