'John McWhorter, teaches linguistics at Columbia University and author of many books including
Talking Back, Talking Black
(Bellevue Literary Press, 2017), digs into why a white poet using African American Vernacular English outraged so many readers in his
most recent essay in The Atlantic, and asks if there is away to imitate Black English without offending people of color.'
Published on August 23, 2018 07:09