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John H. McWhorter, contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, writes and comments extensively on race, ethnicity and cultural issues for the Manhattan Institute. His Book, All About the Beat: Why Hip Hop Can't Save Black America (Gotham Books), pointed beyond the empty gestures of the "hip-hop revolution" to a brave new politics for Black America, calling for a renewed sense of purpose and pride in black communities.
John McWhorter is also the author of the New York Times best seller Losing the Race (Harper Perennial), and an anthology of race writings, Authentically Black (Gotham Books). McWhorter's book, Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America (Gotham Books) generated widespread acclaim. He was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Non-Fiction and has appeared numerous national TV and radio shows, such as Meet the Press, John McLaughlin's One on One, The O'Reilly Factor, and NPR's Fresh Air. McWhorter is also a well-known and widely published linguistics scholar. McWhorter's work on race and cultural issues has appeared in leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The National Review, City Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and New York Magazine.
In addition, McWhorter is a noted linguist and the author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, on how the world's languages arise, change, and mix, and Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music in America and Why We Should, Like, Care. He has also written a book on dialects and Black English, The Word on the Street, and three books on Creole languages. The Teaching Company has released two 36-lecture audiovisual courses of his. His latest academic book on linguistics is Why Does a Language Undress? and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, was published in 2008.
John McWhorter earned his PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993 and became Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley after teaching at Cornell University.
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- WPR's "Joy Cardin Show," 2-11-11
- Fox Business Network's "Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano," 1-13-11 -
Part I,
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- CNN's "Parker/SPitzer", 1-7-11
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- Segregation Is Down. Great News, Right?, The Root, 01-30-12
- 'Dr. King Would Rejoice', USA Today, 08-24-11
- We've Had Enough of Black History Month, Washington Examiner, 02-15-11
- The Dreaded P-Word?, The New York Times, 07-20-10
- Retiring "African American", The New Republic, 01-25-10
- It's Official: America is 'Post-Racial' in the Age of Obama, The Grio, 01-14-10
- What's Wrong With "Negro," Anyway?, The Boston Globe, 01-13-10
- A Voice From the Other Side: Listening to Your Elder, The New Republic, 10-04-09
- What African-American Studies Could Be, Minding the Campus, 09-30-09
- Colour-Blind, National Post, 09-23-09
- From Ricci to Gates-gate: Listening to "The Conversation", The New Republic, 07-26-09
- Where The Jobs Really Are, CNN, 07-20-09
- The Supreme Court Finally Gets Real on "Disparate Impact", The New Republic, 06-29-09
- African-American Studies--As They Should Be, Clarion Call, 06-09-09
- The Murder At Harvard, Minding the Campus, 06-04-09
- Where Hiphop is "Going" and Where It Never Was, The New Republic, 05-21-09
- Stanford '89, A Happier Takeover, Minding the Campus, 04-23-09
- Moving Beyond Bias, The New Republic, 04-22-09
- What's The Real Issue For Black Students?, Dallas Morning News, 03-25-09
- A Look At Real Diversity, Minding the Campus, 03-17-09
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Books
Interviews
City Journal articles - Marrying Out, 2 September 2011
- Do We Really Need Black History Month?, 17 February 2011
- Mr. Mimic, Spring 2010
- Thus Spake Zora, Summer 2009
- Dead End, 6 February 2009
- The Ghost in Your iPod, Autumn 2008
- Looking Past Race, 26 March 2008
- Party of Chains, 8 February 2008
- Hip-Hop Graduates from Thuggery, 9 November 2007
- All Over the Field, 28 June 2007
- How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back, Summer 2003
- Who Should Get into College?, Spring 2003
- Job Loss Didn’t Make the Underclass, Autumn 2002
- Going to the Doggs, Autumn 2002
- Why Blacks Don’t Need Leaders, Summer 2002
- The Mau-Mauing at Harvard, Spring 2002
- The Reparations Racket, 29 March 2002
- The Campus Diversity Fraud, Winter 2002
- Racism Forever, Winter 2002
- Toward a Usable Black History, Summer 2001
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