Code Switch Book Club: Summer 2019
Our listeners suggestions include American history, compelling fiction, a few memoirs—and Jane Austen, re-imagined with brown people.
Our listeners suggestions include American history, compelling fiction, a few memoirs—and Jane Austen, re-imagined with brown people.
Every two weeks a language dies with its last speaker. That was the fate of Hawaiian, until a group of second-language learners put up a fight and declared, “E Ola Ka ‘Olelo Hawai’i” (The Hawaiian …
It’s a pernicious stereotype, but it was coined in reference to a real woman named Linda Taylor. But her misdeeds were far more numerous and darker than welfare fraud. This week: how politicians …
Samin Nosrat is an award-winning chef, cookbook author, and star of the Netflix series Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. She’s also an Iranian American woman trying to represent two cultures that are often …
In middle school and high school, we’re figuring out how to fit in and realizing that there are things about ourselves that we can’t change — whether or not we want to. This week, we’re turning the …
A Sapphire isn’t only a jewel—it’s also cultural shorthand for an angry black woman. In this episode, we look at where Sapphire was born, and how the stereotype continues to haunt black women, even …
France is the place where for decades you weren’t supposed to talk about someone’s blackness, unless you said it in English. Today, we’re going to meet the people who took a very French approach to …
When members of the nation’s oldest Mexican-American student organization voted to change its name, it revealed generational tensions around the past, present, and future of the Chicano movement.
April is National Poetry Month, so on this episode, we’re passing the mic to a handful of talented poets — the people who narrate our lives and help us better understand our own experiences.
For more than two decades, a cellphone store in Washington, D.C. has blasted go-go music right outside of its front door. But a recent noise complaint from a resident of a new, upscale apartment …