The way we mix languages and speech patterns is an apt metaphor for the way race, ethnicity and culture intersect in our lives. Introducing our new blog, Code Switch.

Code-switching can be far from empowering, ... that again made me realize my permanent difference. ... My wife and I live in a constant state of in-between, mixing Korean with English, ...

Code-switching is an age-old practice that is familiar to many Black people—and people of color—in the United States. Though when sociolinguist Einar Haugen coined the term in 1954, it was to describe ...