17 Books Written by
John McWhorter

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Cover of Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
Cover of Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Cover of Losing The Race: Self-Sabotage In Black America
Cover of Words on the Move: Why English Won’t - and Can’t - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
Cover of All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America
Cover of The Language Hoax
Cover of Defining Creole
Cover of Authentically Black: Essays For The Black Silent Majority
Cover of A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole
Cover of Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation Of Language And Music And Why We Should, Like, Care
Cover of What Language Is: And What It Isn’t and What It Could Be
Cover of Woke Racism
Cover of Winning The Race: Beyond The Crisis In Black America
Cover of Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America’s Lingua Franca
Cover of The Power Of Babel: A Natural History Of Language
Cover of Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
Cover of Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of "Pure" Standard English