voice and race recognition

A. Katz amnfn at well.com
Wed Dec 29 13:00:45 UTC 2010


I'm surprised that so much of this discussion is anecdotal. Surely someone 
must have done some studies about interracial adoptions and dialect and 
voice quality in the United States. "Black" children brought up in "white" 
families and "white" children brought up in "black" families ought to be a 
nice testing ground and a good contrast for those who stayed in their 
birth family.

    --Aya


On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, john at research.haifa.ac.il wrote:

> Also, when HH contrasted EMployment and UNemployment, I thought 'Wow, not
> too many Whites would have thought of that.' I think that alone would have
> convinced a lot of Whites that he's Black.
> John
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> Quoting "Angus B. Grieve-Smith" <grvsmth at panix.com>:
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>> On 12/28/2010 9:13 AM, john at research.haifa.ac.il wrote:
>>> Related to this, it seems to be practically impossible for White
>>> Americans to convincingly mimic the speech of Black Americans, at least to
>> the
>>> extent that Black Americans think that they are actually Black on the basis
>> of
>>> their voice--a project I was working on during the 1980s spent a good deal
>> of
>>> time trying to find such White Americans with absolutely no success, I mean
>> not
>>> a single person.
>>      I can't really think of one either.  There are some people who,
>> hearing Howie Hawkins on the radio, thought he was Black, but I'm not
>> sure if any of them were Black themselves:
>>
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> http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wamc/news.newsmain/article/0/2706/1712860/WAMC.News/Third-party.candidates.discuss.NYS.race
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>> --
>> 				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
>> 				grvsmth at panix.com
>>
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