Travis Kelce: Codeswitching?

In this video, my incredible colleague, Zharia Thomas, provides her expertise to explain how American football player, Travis Kelce, suspiciously changes his behavior according to his surrounding social environment

Feat. Zharia Thomas

This video was made in partnership with my incredible colleague, Zharia Thomas, a PhD Student in Florida International University's Developmental Psychology Program. Learn more about her work here.

Sources that made this production possible:

Articles

Minstrelsy/Escaping Whiteness:

Longazel, J. (2021). ‘Blue Lives Matter’ and the legacy of blackface minstrelsy. Race & Class, 63(1), 91–106. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063968211012276

Anicich, E. M., & Hirsh, J. B. (2017). The psychology of middle power: Vertical code-switching, role conflict, and behavioral inhibition. The Academy of Management Review, 42(4), 659–682. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2016.0002

Professionalism & Codeswitching:

McCluney, C. L., Durkee, M. I., Smith II, R. E., Robotham, K. J., & Lee, S. S. L. (2021). To be, or not to be… Black: The effects of racial codeswitching on perceived professionalism in the workplace. Journal of experimental social psychology, 97, 104199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104199

Mithani, M. A., & Mooney Murphy, A. (2017). It's not so black and white after all: Black first name bias persists regardless of race and rank. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2017, No. 1, p. 16637). Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510: Academy of Management. https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/AMBPP.2017.16637abstract

Johnson, D. G., Mattan, B. D., Flores, N., Lauharatanahirun, N., & Falk, E. B. (2022). Social-cognitive and affective antecedents of code switching and the consequences of linguistic racism for Black people and people of color. Affective science, 3(1), 5-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-021-00072-8

Videos

HuffPost. What Is Code-Switching? (2018). YouTube. Retrieved June 15, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNbdn0yuUw8.

Vision Chasers. (2019). A Brief History of The Minstrel Show. YouTube. Retrieved June 15, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptQYcWyRL0.

Shots Podcast Network. (2023). Travis Kelce On Being Single In the NFL! YouTube. Retrieved June 15, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7svJayDZqow.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. (2023). Super Bowl Champion Travis Kelce Announces He’s Hosting SNL and Shows Off His Karaoke Skills. YouTube. Retrieved June 15, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jnQ6cnr-VA.