Vice President Kamala Harris ruffled some feathers when she appeared to adopt a different tone or accent with a crowd than she had previously during her recent campaign trip to Detroit to talk about ...

George Paasewe is the author of "How Black College Students Learn Code-Switching" and the Founder/CEO of The Code-Switcher. Code-switching: It's a term that you might hear on occasion, but what does ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this article, the bilingual speech of members of Spanish, Portuguese, and Algerian communities in France is examined. After having ...

Code switching prevents people from feeling like they can be themselves, but culture coding is a heightened form of situational awareness that taps into the multidimensional nature of our true selves.

Living as a black person in the UK, changing the way you interact with different audiences can become a lifelong practice. Growing up, I noticed the way my dad’s strong Nigerian accent would soften ...

Ask most black professionals what they do to fit in at work, and you’ll get a knowing head nod. Many of us are so used to changing up how we speak, look, and act to make others comfortable that we’re ...