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John McWhorter

John McWhorter 0000000117982707 John H. McWhorter is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a renowned author and linguistics scholar. Known for his commentary on cultural and racial issues, ...

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All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America

by John McWhorter

All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America John McWhorter 9781592403745 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on ...

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Winning The Race: Beyond The Crisis In Black America

by John McWhorter

Winning The Race: Beyond The Crisis In Black America John McWhorter 9781592402700 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times b...

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Woke Racism

by John McWhorter

Woke Racism John McWhorter 9780593423066 Nonfiction Portfolio Penguin Random House Acclaimed linguist and award-winning writer John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracis...

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

by John McWhorter

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever John McWhorter 9780593188798 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House Nine Nasty Words is a deeply intelligent celebration of language that...

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Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation Of Language And Music And Why We Should, Like, Care

by John McWhorter

Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation Of Language And Music And Why We Should, Like, Care John McWhorter 9781592400164 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House A rousing polemic in defense of the written ...

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Losing The Race: Self-Sabotage In Black America

by John McWhorter

Losing The Race: Self-Sabotage In Black America John McWhorter 9780684836690 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press Is school a "white" thing? If not, then why do African-American students from comfortable ...

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Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

by John McWhorter

Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words John McWhorter 9780593713280 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House With his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts ...

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

by John McWhorter

Words on the Move: Why English Won’t - and Can’t - Sit Still (Like, Literally) John McWhorter 9781627794718 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A bestselling linguist takes us on a...

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The Language Hoax

by John McWhorter

The Language Hoax John McWhorter 9780190468897 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark an...

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

by John McWhorter

What Language Is: And What It Isn’t and What It Could Be John McWhorter 9781592407200 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House A love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing as...

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

by John McWhorter

Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of "Pure" Standard English John McWhorter 9780738204468 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact...

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Authentically Black: Essays For The Black Silent Majority

by John McWhorter

Authentically Black: Essays For The Black Silent Majority John McWhorter 9781592400010 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off, this penetrating...

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The Power Of Babel: A Natural History Of Language

by John McWhorter

The Power Of Babel: A Natural History Of Language John McWhorter 9780716744733 Nonfiction W. H. Freeman W. H. Freeman There are approximately 6000 languages on earth today, the descendants of the tong...

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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America’s Lingua Franca

by John McWhorter

Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America’s Lingua Franca John McWhorter 9781942658207 Nonfiction Bellevue Literary Press Bellevue Literary Review It has now been almost fifty years since ling...

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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

by John McWhorter

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English John McWhorter 9781592404940 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focus...

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Defining Creole

by John McWhorter

Defining Creole John McWhorter 9780195166699 Fiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole la...

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A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole

by John McWhorter

A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole John McWhorter 9783110995404 Nonfiction De Gruyter Mouton Walter de Gruyter Saramaccan has been central to various debates regarding the origin and nature of creole lang...

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Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations

by Raymond A. Winbush

Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations Raymond A. Winbush 9780060083113 Nonfiction Community Press Community Press Growing interest in reparations for African Americans has ...

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Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era

by Houston Baker Jr.

Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era Houston Baker Jr. 9780231139656 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Houston A. Baker Jr. ...

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All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America

by Kam Williams

All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America Kam Williams Book Review ’There is apparently something about hip-hop that distracts people into, in some part of their br...

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