Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

By John H. McWhorter

Defining Creole

By John H. McWhorter

Defining Creole

By John H. McWhorter

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

By John H. McWhorter, John McWhorter

The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language

By John H. McWhorter

"Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does l...

The word on the street

By John H. McWhorter

In The Word on the Street, John McWhorter reveals our American English in all its variety, beauty, and expressiveness. Debunking the myth of a "pure" standard English, he considers the speech patte...

Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America

By John H. McWhorter, John McWhorter

The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact

By John H. McWhorter, John McWhorter

Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America

By John H. Mcwhorter

"Is school a "white" thing? If not, then why do African-American students from comfortable middle-class backgrounds perform so badly in the classroom? What is it that prevents so many black college...

The Power of Babel

By John H. McWhorter, John McWhorter

"There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. How did they all develop? What happened to the f...