Investigating the Experiences of Cultural Code-Switching Among Black Middle-Class Professionals in South Africa
James Lappeman,
Amu Mathebula,
Jared Brien
et al.
Abstract:This research investigates the experiences of cultural code-switching among Black middle-class professionals in post-apartheid South Africa. By virtue of the unjust and inhumane laws imposed during South Africa’s discriminatory apartheid regime, salient dominant and minority cultures have prevailed in the post-apartheid era. The discrimination against and hegemony over previously oppressed cultures have engendered layers of trauma and unhealed scars in contemporary South African society. Using in-depth intervi… Show more
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