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Employees of color are experiencing higher levels of burnout as they code-switch to navigate professional spaces where they are underrepresented. Employees feel compelled to code-switch in their quest for career advancement by adapting their communication, behavior, and core identity to align with corporate expectations. The consequences are strikingly evident: a surge in burnout rates, heightened dissatisfaction, a profound sense of not belonging, and resignations.
In The Cost of Code-Switching: Belonging in Corporate America, author George Paasewe delves deep into the uncharted territory of code-switching in the corporate world. This eye-opening book uncovers the intricate challenges confronting employees of color in their pursuit of belonging, highlighting an overlooked crisis.
GRANT ME SERENITY is about an infant named Serenity living up to her name with her bubbly personality consisting of smiles and laughter. Upon Serenity’s arrival in this world as the newest addition to her family, she has enhanced the love, happiness, and peace of the Paasewe household.
Throughout the book, Serenity discovers biblical scriptures referencing courage, wisdom, and discernment, which compliments the Serenity prayer. Serenity also shares her fondest memories with her parents and big sister Lyla, whom she loves and adores.
By the end of this book, Serenity understands the importance of living in the moment with joy, love, and peace in her heart to fulfill God’s promises for her life.
One Day, I Will Become an Alpha is about a boy named Eugene, who grows up admiring and emulating his father, a distinguished Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Eugene’s father takes an active interest in enrooting Alpha’s values, morals, and characteristics within his son. Throughout the book, Eugene’s father provides him with an insight into what it takes to become an Alpha.
As a future legacy, Eugene explores his imagination and has a glimpse of his future as an Alpha man and joining the same fraternity as his father.
By the end of Eugene’s Journey, he recognizes Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s mission and the true meaning of brotherhood, scholarship, manly deeds, and love for all mankind.
STUDENTS OF COLOR are code-switching to navigate predominantly White institutions (PWIs) effectively, but they have realized that code-switching can feel like a requirement and that it is not enough to overcome racism. In this book, George Paasewe reveals that racism is the root cause of why people of color feel pressure to code-switch and simultaneously bear the burden of code-switching. Additionally, he discusses the importance of developing a self-concept of code-switching and recognizing its adverse effects.
This expanded second edition of How Black College Students Learn Code-Switching includes all the material from the first edition and focuses on anti-racist practices that higher education institutions can implement to refine their diversity, equity, and inclusion practices to foster a safe, welcoming, and inclusive campus for students of all backgrounds.
Students of color grapple with heightened burnout levels as they code-switch to navigate academic, professional, and social spaces where they are underrepresented. Consequently, this lowers student engagement on campus and academic performance, contributing to increased mental health challenges and substance abuse, leading students to consider transferring or dropping out of higher education due to concerns regarding belonging.
In Belonging on Campus: Code-Switching and College Life, George Paasewe expands on his 2015 IRB research on code-switching, which contributed to the scientific literature by discovering how code-switching is learned while illuminating the complex challenges that students of color face in their pursuit of belonging and succeeding.