John McWhorter

John H. McWhorter teaches linguistics, American studies, and music history at Columbia University. He is the host of the podcast Lexicon Valley and writes a weekly column for The New York Times. McWhorter is the author of twenty-three books, including Nine Nasty Words, Woke Racism, The Power of Babel, and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue.

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