🎭 “The Language of Survival: Code-Switching in the Black Community”
A subset that struck me in particular viewing The Other Wes Moore is the issue of code-switching, how Blacks tend to switch their manner of speech, behaviour, or identities, based on the audience. It is not only a matter of speech change but life, chance, place. In their own fashion, both Wes Moores demonstrate that code-switching is a key determinant of identity and door-opener (or door-closer). And having undergone such circumstances myself, this was a theme that was not far away and more relative to me as apart of the black community. The author Wes Moore has developed the ability to travel between worlds as seen in the book. He is raised in an adverse environment of Baltimore, however, being taken to military school, he understands how to represent himself in a different way at school and at work. He gets to know about the rules of conversing in proper English, dressing in a particular manner, and to carry himself with a degree of confidence among what enables him to blend int...