John McWhorter

John McWhorter

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avg rating: 3.85 | 286 ratings | 11 distinct works

	The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (Paperback) by John McWhorter avg rating 4.04 — 119 ratings — published 2003 2 editions	my rating:
	Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America (Paperback) by John McWhorter avg rating 3.76 — 54 ratings — published 2001	my rating:
	Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care (Hardcover) by John McWhorter avg rating 3.53 — 36 ratings — published 2003 4 editions	my rating:
	Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America (Paperback) by John McWhorter avg rating 3.53 — 15 ratings — published 2006 2 editions	my rating:
	Authentically Black (Paperback) by John McWhorter avg rating 3.17 — 12 ratings — published 2004 2 editions	my rating:
	Story of Human Language (Audio CD) by John McWhorter avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2005	my rating:
	All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America (Hardcover) by John McWhorter avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America (Paperback) by John McWhorter avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 2000	my rating:
	Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English (Hardcover) by John McWhorter avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact (Hardcover) by John McWhorter avg rating 0.00 — 0 ratings — published 2000	my rating:

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"A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect."
— John McWhorter

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