LogFAQs > #886880717

Maybe forty years ago, shortly after the signing of the civil rights act, there was a resurgence of efforts to recapture black identity as a source of pride among the black american community. You can see it, paging through popular fashions marketed to black men and women. Natural hair was also 'in.' People tried to trace their lineages back to countries and tribes in pre-slavery Africa (I have a hard time believing most of these results bore legitimacy given how few slave owners cared to keep track of that information, and given how mixed up all that would have been over three hundred years of tribal intermarriage and complete cultural erasure).

Part of that cultural movement involved parents giving their kids Afrocentric sounding names that sounded nothing like the common western names of the time. A couple generations later those naming conventions still persisted in a way, but were now less aware of that initial goal of reaffirming black identity and more about giving their kids unique names that distinguished them from others. A lot of these names have questionable basis in traditional African naming conventions.
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