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John McWhorter

John McWhorter teaches linguistics at Columbia University. He is the author of Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America.

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May 28, 2014
John McWhorter
Saint Maya
Angelou's flawed books helped relieve black writers of the burden of representing their race
May 16, 2014
John McWhorter
That Viral Story About the Racist Ice Cream Song Is Wrong
April 28, 2014
John McWhorter
We've Been Told that Different Languages Create Different Worldviews. They Don't.
January 24, 2014
John McWhorter
A Gender-Neutral Pronoun Won't Work in English. We're Stuck With "She" and "He."
August 27, 2013
John McWhorter
Miley's Twerking Wasn't Racist
It's not right to call her VMA performance minstrelsy
August 9, 2013
John McWhorter
A Quixotic History of Doomed Efforts to Fix Spelling
June 27, 2013
John McWhorter
The Grumpy Grammarian: Surely, Actually the Scolds Have Lost Their Minds
May 17, 2013
John McWhorter
Freedom From, Freedom To
Yes, you can end a sentence in a preposition
October 1, 2011
John McWhorter
When Politicians Misspeak, Should We Care?
August 17, 2011
John McWhorter
‘The Help’ Isn’t Racist. Its Critics Are.
August 3, 2011
John McWhorter
McWhorter: ‘Tar Baby’ Isn’t Actually a Racist Slur
June 2, 2011
John McWhorter
Crimes and Punishments
April 1, 2011
John McWhorter
Moving While Black
October 5, 2010
John McWhorter
The Integration Jitters
September 2, 2010
John McWhorter
Don't Believe the Hype About Aborigines, Yiddish, or Ebonics
March 5, 2010
John McWhorter
Taking out My Eraser
February 17, 2010
John McWhorter
Community Colleges Are More Interesting Than Tea Parties
January 22, 2010
John McWhorter
Did "African American" History Really Happen in Atlanta, Cleveland, Philly, and Detroit? Listening to the Census.
December 15, 2009
John McWhorter
What To Get a Black Person For Christmas
December 9, 2009
John McWhorter
How Is Tiger Woods "Racial"? And Isn't That Progress?

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