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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel
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Code Shifting - How to Honor the Things That Used to Work for You
We all have a voice story and some of it is really literal. Here's the accent that I knew that I had or here's the accent I didn't know I had until I left. Some of it is these much subtler micro adjustments we've made in the different rooms we've been in because on some subliminal level, we're picking up what will make me seem likableor not stand out. This is also where we can talk very specifically about code switching,. A term that's used really frequently in linguistics and then also in the social justice space to call out that people who are black historically have been taught and feel the obligation to sound quote unquote white in predominantly
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