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Black and biracial Americans wouldn't need to code-switch if we lived in a post-racial society

  • Written by Chandra D.L. Waring, ​Assistant Professor of Sociology and Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
For black and biracial Americans, the pressures to adapt to a dominant white culture – and surrender their unique sense of self – can be suffocating.Gumenyuk Dmitriy/Shutterstock.com

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