Code-switching is another fluidity tactic that African American characters employ. Gene Demby, lead blogger for National Public Radio's Code Switch team, defines code-switching in a unique way.

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.

As found in our data, code-switching also occurs when there are roughly equal numbers of black and nonblack employees, which suggests that diversifying organizations is only part of the solution.

Code-switching is a practice that people from marginalized groups engage in to assimilate to another culture. Learn what it is and why it happens.

Code-switching is not just in the way a person speaks. It can also involve your entire behavioral profile from hairstyles, to clothing and how you carry yourself.

Code-switching is another fluidity tactic that African American characters employ. Gene Demby, lead blogger for National Public Radio's Code Switch team, defines code-switching in a unique way.