For many people of color living in the United States, code-switching has become an automated survival tool, something so ingrained in daily life that it often goes unnoticed. While the term ...

Award-winning journalist Lori Lizarraga is a co-host of NPR's Code Switch, the preeminent podcast about race and identity in America. Before joining NPR, she reported across the country in Texas, ...

Lori Lizarraga here – your resident Texan and Latina Code Switch co-host with some exciting news...Ask Code Switch is back! Every Monday this fall, I'm calling in special guests to help me tackle some ...

Code-switching is more than just a linguistic phenomenon; it’s a dynamic expression of identity, culture, and survival. Code-switching is a nuanced and multifaceted practice that goes beyond merely ...

I’m a people pleaser, which makes me a dishonest person. This admission is a jarring contradiction for a therapist, yet it is an inescapable truth. I’ve spent years guiding others toward authenticity ...

Vice President Kamala Harris ruffled some feathers when she appeared to adopt a different tone or accent with a crowd than she had previously during her recent campaign trip to Detroit to talk about ...

In sociology, code switching is when a person alters their speech to conform to different cultural norms. For example, marginalized people may use one way of speaking around their community and ...

This week on Ask Code Switch, we're talking about "talking about" race with your significant other. Dating a white person obviously isn't racist – just like dating a person of color isn't inherently ...

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 ...