john mcwhorter

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">keynote speaker?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); line-height: 22.4px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>John Hamilton McWhorter V</b> (born October 1, 1965) is an American academic, political commentator, critic, and<b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">linguist</a>,</b> professor at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Columbia University</a> where he teaches linguistics, <b>American studies, </b>comparative literature, philosophy, and music history.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup> He is the author of a number of books on language and on race relations. His research specialties are how <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language" title="Creole language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">creole languages</a> form and how language grammars change as the result of sociohistorical phenomena.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has written for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Time</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Wall Street Journal</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Atlantic</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicle_of_Higher_Education" title="The Chronicle of Higher Education" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Chronicle of Higher Education</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The New York Times</a></i>,<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Washington Post</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The New Republic</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico" title="Politico" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Politico</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Forbes</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicago_Tribune" class="mw-redirect" title="The Chicago Tribune" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Chicago Tribune</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Daily_News" class="mw-redirect" title="The New York Daily News" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The New York Daily News</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York</a></i>,<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The New Yorker</a></i>, and others.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></font></font></font></h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"> [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#Early_life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#Career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#Social_and_political_views" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Social and political views</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#Bibliography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Bibliography</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life">Early life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_McWhorter&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Early life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McWhorter was born and raised in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Philadelphia</a>. He attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_Select_School" title="Friends Select School" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Friends Select School</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Philadelphia</a>, and after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_grade" title="Tenth grade" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">tenth grade</a>was accepted to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%27s_Rock_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Simon's Rock College" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Simon's Rock College</a>, where he earned an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate%27s_degree" class="mw-redirect" title="Associate's degree" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">A.A. degree</a>. Later, he attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_University" title="Rutgers University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Rutgers University</a> and received a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">B.A.</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">French</a> in 1985. He received a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">master's degree</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="American Studies" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Studies</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York University</a> and a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph.D." class="mw-redirect" title="Ph.D." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ph.D.</a> in linguistics in 1993 from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Stanford University</a>.</font></p><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_McWhorter&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since 2008, he has taught linguistics, American Studies, and in the Core Curriculum program at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Columbia University</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and is currently an Associate Professor in the English and Comparative Literature department there. After graduation McWhorter was an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate_professor" title="Associate professor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">associate professor</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> of linguistics at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Cornell University</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from 1993 to 1995 before taking up a position as associate professor of linguistics at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">University of California, Berkeley</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, from 1995 until 2003. He left that position to become a Senior Fellow at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Manhattan Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Manhattan Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism" title="Conservatism" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">conservative</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">think tank</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He was Contributing Editor at </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The New Republic</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from 2001 to 2014. From 2006 to 2008 he was a columnist for the </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Sun" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Sun" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York Sun</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and he has written columns regularly for </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root(magazine)" title="The Root (magazine)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Root</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Daily_News" class="mw-redirect" title="The New York Daily News" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The New York Daily News</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Beast" title="The Daily Beast" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Daily Beast</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and Time Ideas.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">McWhorter has published a number of books on linguistics and on race relations, of which the better known are </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why You Should, Like, Care</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_the_Race:Self-Sabotage_in_Black_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America</a></i>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He makes regular public radio and television appearances on related subjects. He is interviewed frequently on</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Public_Radio" class="mw-redirect" title="National Public Radio" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Public Radio</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and is a frequent contributor on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloggingheads.tv" title="Bloggingheads.tv" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bloggingheads.tv</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He has appeared twice o<b>n </b></span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn%26_Teller:Bullshit!" title="Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><b>Penn & Teller: Bullshit!</b></a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>,</b> once in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity" title="Profanity" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">profanity</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> episode in his capacity as a linguistics professor, and again in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparations_for_slavery" title="Reparations for slavery" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">slavery reparations</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> episode for his political views and knowledge of race relations. He has spoken at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED(conference)" title="TED (conference)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><b>TED</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b> (2013)</b>, has appeared on </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colbert_Report" title="The Colbert Report" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Colbert Report</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_with_Bill_Maher" title="Real Time with Bill Maher" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Real Time with Bill Maher</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and appeared regularly on MSNBC's </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_with_Chris_Hayes" class="mw-redirect" title="Up with Chris Hayes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Up with Chris Hayes</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McWhorter is the author of the courses entitled "The Story of Human Language, "Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language," "Myths, Lies and Half-Truths About English Usage," and "Language From A to Z" for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teaching_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The Teaching Company" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Teaching Company</a>. His 2003 <i>Authentically Black</i> has been interview-reviewed on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booknotes" title="Booknotes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">booknotes</a>.org</i>, and he has also been interviewed on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSPAN" class="mw-redirect" title="CSPAN" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">CSPAN</a>'s <i>Book Notes In Depth</i> series.<sup id="cite_ref-booknotes_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#cite_note-booknotes-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Much of his academic work has concerned creole languages and their relationship to other ones, often focusing on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surinam" class="mw-redirect" title="Surinam" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Surinam</a> creole language <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saramaccan" class="mw-redirect" title="Saramaccan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Saramaccan</a>. His work has expanded to a general investigation of how adults acquiring a language "undoes" much of the complexity and irregularity that human language otherwise inevitably wends into, to varying degrees of which creoles are simply an extreme. This includes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese" title="Mandarin Chinese" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Mandarin Chinese</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farsi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Farsi language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Persian</a>, the modern colloquial dialects of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Arabic</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_language" title="Swahili language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Swahili</a>, and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_language" title="Indonesian language" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Indonesian</a>, as well as English. He has outlined these ideas in academic format in <i>Language Interrupted</i> and <i>Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity</i>, and for the general public in <i>What Language Is</i> and, on <i>English, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue</i>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McWhorter has also been a proponent of a theory that various languages on the island of Flores underwent transformation due to aggressive migrations from the nearby island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulawesi" title="Sulawesi" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sulawesi</a>, and has joined scholars who document that English was profoundly influenced by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages" title="Celtic languages" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Celtic languages</a> spoken by peoples encountered by Germanic invaders of Britain. He has also written various pieces for the media arguing that colloquial constructions such as the modern uses of "like" and "totally," and nonstandard speech in general, be considered alternate renditions of English rather than degraded ones.</font></p><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Social_and_political_views">Social and political views</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_McWhorter&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Social and political views" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">McWhorter characterizes himself as "a cranky liberal Democrat". In support of this description, he states that while he "disagree[s] sustainedly with many of the tenets of the Civil Rights orthodoxy," he also "supports <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Barack Obama</a>, reviles the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Drugs" title="War on Drugs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">War on Drugs</a>, supports <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_marriage" class="mw-redirect" title="Gay marriage" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">gay marriage</a>, never voted for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">George Bush</a> and writes of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English" title="African American Vernacular English" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Black English</a> as coherent speech".</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> McWhorter additionally notes that the conservative </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Manhattan Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Manhattan Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, for which he worked, "has always been hospitable to Democrats".</span><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Regardless</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, McWhorter has criticized left-wing and activist educators in particular, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire" title="Paulo Freire" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Paulo Freire</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kozol" title="Jonathan Kozol" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Jonathan Kozol</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">4]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> One author identifies McWhorter as a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_center(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Radical center (politics)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">radical centrist</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> thinker.</span><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April 2015, McWhorter appeared on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR" title="NPR" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">NPR</a> and claimed that the use of the word "thug" was becoming code for "the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger#The_N-word_euphemism" title="Nigger" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">N-word</a>" or "black people ruining things" when used by whites in reference to criminal activity.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WPThug_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#cite_note-WPThug-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a></sup> He added that recent use by President Obama and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (for which she later apologized) could not be interpreted in the same way, given that the black community's use of "thug" may positively connote admiration for black self-direction and survival. McWhorter clarified his views in an article in the <i>Washington Post</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-WPThug_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#cite_note-WPThug-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Bibliography">Bibliography</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_McWhorter&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Bibliography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1997: <i>Towards a New Model of Creole Genesis</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0820433128" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 0-820-43312-8</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1998: <i>Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0738204463" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 0-738-20446-3</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2000: <i>The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0520219996" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 0-520-21999-6</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2000: <i>Spreading the Word : Language and Dialect in America</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0325001987" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 0-325-00198-7</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2000: <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losing_the_Race" title="Losing the Race" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America</a></i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0684836696" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 0-684-83669-6</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001: <i>The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/006052085X" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 0-06-052085-X</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2003: <i>Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1592400019" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 1-592-40001-9</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2003: <i>Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1592400167" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 1-592-40016-7</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2005: <i>Defining Creole</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0195166698" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 0-195-16669-8</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2005: <i>Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1592401880" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 1-592-40188-0</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2007: <i>Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0195309804" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 0-195-30980-4</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2008: <i>All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1592403743" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 1-592-40374-3</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2008: <i>Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1592403956" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 1-592-40395-6</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011: <i>What Language Is (And What It Isn't and What It Could Be)</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781592406258" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 978-1-592-40625-8</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011: <i>Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781934078372" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 978-1-934-07837-2</a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014: <i>The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199361588" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 978-0-199-36158-8</a></font></li></ul><h2 style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_McWhorter&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration: none; 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Westview Press and Basic Books, p. 10. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780813341903" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 978-0-8133-4190-3</a>.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter#cite_ref-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="-webkit-user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">All Things Considered (2015-04-30). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/403362626/the-racially-charged-meaning-behind-the-word-thug" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"The Racially Charged Meaning Behind The Word 'Thug<span style="padding-right: 0.2em;">'</span>"</a>. 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Let’s not get too bent out of shape."</a>. The Washington Post<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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