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

By John McWhorter

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

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

By John McWhorter

A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammarWhy do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog&#82...

What Language Is

By John McWhorter

A love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct grammarAn eye-opening tour for all language lovers, What Language Is offers a fascinating new perspe...

Winning the Race

By John McWhorter

In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only...

Winning the Race

By John McWhorter

How Good Food Works from Seed to Plate

By Joseph Novak, John McWhorter

How good food works is founded on a basic belief: by improving people's understanding of food - how it's grown, harvested, prepared, and seasoned - we can show how easy it is to eat healthy and liv...

Doing Our Own Thing

By John McWhorter

“McWhorter is a gifted young linguist who seeks to understand the change in our verbal habits rather than just bemoan it, and his analysis is insightful, richly documented and, yes, eloquentl...

Winning the Race

By John McWhorter

In his first major book on the state of black America since the New York Times bestseller Losing the Race, John McWhorter argues that a renewed commitment to achievement and integration is the only...