Ashanti vershawn young biography
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Vershawn Ashanti Young
Vershawn Ashanti Young (also known as Dr. Vay) is a researcher of language and performance. Young is known for encouraging "code-meshing" instead of code-switching.[1][2] His research shows that it is not good for people to have to speak and write in a different way at work or at school than they write and speak at home.[1] Young argues that when schools require "Standard English" it can be harmful to students of those schools.[1] Instead, professional and school writing should include culture-specific communication styles.[1]
Young is a professor of Black Studies at the University of Waterloo.[3] Young works in two departments at the university: the Department of Communication Arts and the Department of English Language and Literature.[4] He specializes in African American English.[3] He also studies how ideas about gender appear in language.[5]