Author
John H. McWhorter
27 books
Books
Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis1997
The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable About American English1998
Language Change and Language Contact in Pidgins and Creoles1999
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America2000
Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America2000
The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages2000
The power of Babel2002
Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority2003
Doing our own thing2003
Doing Our Own Thing The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care2004
The Story of Human Language2004
Defining Creole2005
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America2006
Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars2007
All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America2008
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue The Untold History of English2008
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English2008
Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?2011
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be2011
A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole2012
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language2014
Words on the Move: Why English Won't- and Cant- Sit Still (Like, Literally)2016
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca2017
The Creole Debate2018
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter : Then, Now, and Forever2021
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America2021
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words2025Keep track of every John H. McWhorter book you read
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