By adjusting our current understanding of code-switching and using it as a tool to empower and position ourselves as a group, it could be one piece of the puzzle to moving Black people forward as a collective people.
Double Consciousness
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‘Sorry to Bother You’ underscores the hard reality of code-switching
Black and biracial Americans wouldn’t need to code-switch if we lived in a post-racial society.
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Joetta Wright uses art to education and empower community
One such contribution is Wright’s weekly podcast Double Consciousness which explores, in part, the W.E.B. DuBois concept of what it means to have a divided identity while navigating dominant culture politics and social norms as artists of color.