Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Paasewe is the author of "How Black College Students Learn Code-Switching" and the Founder/CEO of The Code-Switcher.

DETROIT – Code-switching is defined as the ability to switch between languages in a single conversation. For example, you may speak more casually at home than you do at work. But for Black people, ...

Alfaro, Ph.D., is associate vice president of international affairs and professor of multilingual and global education at San Diego State University. She lives in Escondido. The visceral and powerful ...

Code-switching is defined as the ability to switch between languages in a single conversation. For example, you may speak more casually at home than you do at work. But for Black people, ...

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 ...

What exactly is code-switching? Many of us may do it and not even realize it. Others may have never heard this term before, and some others may not acknowledge it as a real thing. Usually groups in ...

Subject: Race on Campus: The Taxing Performance of Code Switching Welcome to Race on Campus. Whether they’re doing so consciously or not, members of marginalized groups often change their manner of ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) In telling the story of Cassius, a young Black man who becomes an extraordinarily ...

Code-switching: It's a term that you might hear on occasion, but what does it really mean? George Paasewe, a Milwaukee area professor and author, has made it his goal to research and share the ...

What exactly is code-switching? Many of us may do it and not even realize it. Others may have never heard this term before, and some others may not acknowledge it as a real thing. Usually groups in ...