John McWhorter
John McWhorter is an associate professor of English and
comparative literature at Columbia University. He earned his PhD in
linguistics from Stanford University in 1993 and became associate
professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley after teaching at Cornell
University. He was senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute from 2002
until 2010. He is the author of What Language Is (and What It Isn’t and What It Could Be), The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music in America and Why We Should, Like, Care and Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: Untold Stories in the History of English, as well as Authentically Black, Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America, and All About the Beat: Why Hip Hop Can’t Save Black America. He is also contributing editor for The New Republic, columnist for The New York Daily News and has been contributing editor at TheRoot.com and City Journal.
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