Robyn Autry: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's African name challenges the respectability politics that dictate how Black people should present themselves, including the names they go by. - NBCNewsTHINK
as the court opens its new term on Monday. But she does change the court’s makeup in fundamental ways that go beyond ideology.
That transformation begins with the first name she bears and now adds to the high court’s pantheon. While she is the third Black person to become a justice, she is the first Black woman and the only one to have an African name. The significance of that lone African name being listed among the 115 others since the court’s inception cannot be understated. It represents a powerful twist in the history still unfolding since the first enslaved Angolans arrived on the coast of Virginia in 1619.
Throughout their history in America, people belonging to stigmatized groups have undergone name changes in hopes of managing that stigma. During Jackon’s confirmation hearings, we heard accounts of her career as a federal judge and public defender, her judicial track record and philosophy. But we also heard more personal stories from Jackson about her family, including her parents, who she said
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