John McWhorter

John McWhorter teaches linguistics, Western civilization, music history, and American studies at Columbia University. A New York Times best-selling author and TED speaker, he is a columnist for CNN.com, a regular contributor to the Atlantic, a frequent guest on CNN and MSNBC, and the host of Slate's language podcast, Lexicon Valley. His books on language include The Power of Babel; Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue; Words on the Move; Talking Back, Talking Black; and The Creole Debate.

Ebooks

Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

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

Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English

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

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

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

Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America

Authentically Black

The Language Hoax

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

The Language Hoax

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

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

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

The Creole Debate

Defining Creole

Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?

A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole

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

Defining Creole