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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue : The Untold History of English by John McWhorter
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Power of Babel : A Natural History of Language by John Mcwhorter
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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. While laying out how ... More
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue : The Untold History of English by John McWhorter
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Defining Creole by John H. McWhorter
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A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a ... More
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Losing the Race : Self-Sabotage in Black America by John McWhorter
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Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the ... More
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Word on the Street : Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English by John Mcwhorter
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Spreading the Word : Language and Dialect in America by John McWhorter
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In Spreading the Word, linguist John McWhorter proves that nonstandard dialects are not bastardizations of Standard English, but alternate variations upon the basic plan of ... More
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All about the Beat : Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by John McWhorter
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The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race, imparts a scathing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hop and why its popularity proves that black ... More
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All about the Beat : Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by John McWhorter
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The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on race, imparts a scathing look at the hypocrisy of hip-hop and why its popularity proves that black ... More
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Authentically Black : Essays for the Black Silent Majority by John H. McWhorter
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The critically acclaimed book from the bestselling author of Losing the Race and The Power of Babel John McWhorter is one of the most original and provocative thinkers on the ... More
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