John McWhorter

John H. McWhorter earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University and is the author of two books on creole languages, Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis and The Missing Spanish Creoles. He has also written The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language. In addition, he writes on race and culture for the New Republic and other publications and is the author of Losing the Race, Authentically Black, and Doing Your Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care. He lives in New York City.

Ebooks

Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

The Power Of Babel: A Natural History of Language

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)

Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America

Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed Black America

The Creole Debate

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever

What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be

Authentically Black

Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole

The Language Hoax

Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English

All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America

Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care

Defining Creole

Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars

Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?

Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars

The Language Hoax

Defining Creole

Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America