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Obama Could Use Your Support
i remember the moment when i figured out my dissertation topic. When i was in college, i wanted to volunteer in the obama campaign. So i'm just casually in room perusing doctor nicol holiday's hundred 85 page phd Dissertation. She notes up top that baroca bama is a masterful code switcher between main stream English and african american language. And this is a term that originated almost 70 years ago from a study of Norwegian norwegian villages. It means to switch into different conversational tones depending on who you're speaking to or whom you're speaking it to. I hadn't heard of the term until recently, when my bilingual latina friend