
John Hamilton McWhorter V is an American linguist. He is an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, where he also teaches American studies and music history. He has authored a number of books on race relations and African-American culture, and is a political commentator especially in his New York Times newsletter.
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Defining Creole
2005
ISBN 9780190290405
The Power of Babel
2002
ISBN 9780434007899
Talking Back, Talking Black
2018
ISBN 9781942658580
The Missing Spanish Creoles
2000
ISBN 9780520219991
Losing the Race
2001
ISBN 9780060935931
Doing Our Own Thing
2003
ISBN 9781592400164
The Story of Human Language
2004
ISBN 9781565859494
Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity
2011
ISBN 9781934078686
A Grammar of Saramaccan Creole
2012
ISBN 9781283856867
Words on the Move
2016
ISBN 9781250143785
The Creole Debate
2018
ISBN 9781108601931
Our magnificent bastard tongue
2008
ISBN 9781592403950
Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis
1997
ISBN 9780820433127
The Word on the Street
1998
ISBN 9780306459948
Authentically Black
2003
ISBN 9781592400010
Doing Our Own Thing The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
2004
ISBN 9781592400843
Language Interrupted
2007
ISBN 9780190294939
Winning the Race
2007
ISBN 9781592402700
All About the Beat
2008
ISBN 9781592403745
The Language Hoax
2014
ISBN 9780190468897
Woke Racism
2021
ISBN 9780593423066
Pronoun Trouble
2025
ISBN 9780593713280