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A Roshanda By Any Other Name Analysis
“A Roshanda by Any Other Name” A Distinct Black Name Equates a Worse Life
Roland G. Fryer is a well known, black professor economist at Harvard University and faculty director of the Education Innovation Laboratory. Fryer is well-known for his straight-forward writings on race and devotion to the question concerning, “Why blacks perform low scores on the SAT’s and earn less money than whites.” (Levitt, J, S. D., & Dubber, S. J., 2005, pg.166) In addition, Fryer’s fascination with the occurring segregation in the black and white cultural has led him to many successful studies, including the gap, differences of black parents and white parents in choosing baby names. According to his analysis of the California names data, a person with
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