Ben at A.I.A.A.T.A.E. writes in a blog post about a study published in the New York Times:
Resumes submitted with 'black' names were significantly less likely to be invited in for an interview than resumes with 'white' names.
And in a subsequent posting:
Table 2, on page 30 of this paper has a table I just can't stop thinking about. It reports that if Brad submits a hundred resumes he will get 16 calls, while Rasheed can expect to get 3.
The first thought that popped into my head is, wow, I wonder what that means for my friend Jim Holt's son who was given the name Thunder Holt (I am not making this up).