{"id":56767,"date":"2018-08-17T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56767"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T17:15:09","slug":"black-and-biracial-americans-wouldnt-need-to-code-switch-if-we-lived-in-a-post-racial-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56767","title":{"rendered":"Black and biracial Americans wouldn\u2019t need to code-switch if we lived in a post-racial society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/black-and-biracial-americans-wouldnt-need-to-code-switch-if-we-lived-in-a-post-racial-society-101013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Black and biracial Americans wouldn\u2019t need to code-switch if we lived in a post-racial society<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation<\/a><br \/>\n2018-08-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:waringc@uww.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chandra D. L. Waring<\/strong><\/a>, \u200bAssistant Professor of Sociology and Race and Ethnic Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Wisconsin, Whitewater<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"400\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/black-and-biracial-americans-wouldnt-need-to-code-switch-if-we-lived-in-a-post-racial-society-101013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/232369\/original\/file-20180816-2900-1pzapda.jpg\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>For black and biracial Americans, the pressures to adapt to a dominant white culture \u2013 and surrender their unique sense of self \u2013 can be suffocating. <em>Gumenyuk Dmitriy\/Shutterstock.com<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boots_Riley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boots Riley\u2019s<\/a> new film \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5688932\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sorry to Bother You<\/a>\u201d does anything but apologize.<\/p>\n<p>In telling the story of Cassius, a young black man who becomes an extraordinarily successful telemarketer after he starts using his \u201cwhite voice,\u201d it showcases the magnitude of racial and class oppression.<\/p>\n<p>Colloquially, Cassius\u2019 use of a \u201cwhite voice\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20866886?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is known as code-switching<\/a>, and the film highlights something that most African-Americans could probably tell you: The ability to code-switch is often a prerequisite to becoming a successful black person in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a race scholar and sociologist, I\u2019ve studied biracial Americans who engage in code-switching. I found that the ability to deftly code-switch has some real advantages. But it also has its fair share of pitfalls.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, it has led me to wonder what the persistence of code-switching tells us about race, opportunities and making connections in America today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/black-and-biracial-americans-wouldnt-need-to-code-switch-if-we-lived-in-a-post-racial-society-101013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For black and biracial Americans, the pressures to adapt to a dominant white culture \u2013 and surrender their unique sense of self \u2013 can be suffocating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[16836,28914,5628],"class_list":["post-56767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-chandra-d-l-waring","tag-code-switching","tag-the-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56768,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56767\/revisions\/56768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}