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Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected black America. Losing the Race explores the three main components of this cultural virus: the cults of victimology, separatism, and antiintellectualism that are making blacks their own worst enemies in the struggle for success.

More angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more...

There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a living, dynamic entity that adapts itself to an ever-changing human environment.

Full of humor and imaginative insight, The Power of Babel draws its illustrative examples from...

Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as all human languages are, are delineable from older languages as the result of their having come into existence only a few centuries ago. Then...

Eine neue Religion spaltet die Gesellschaft unter dem Deckmantel des Antirassismus.

Über dieses Buch spricht ganz Amerika: Der Schwarze Sprachwissenschaftler John McWhorter prangert eine Bewegung von selbsternannten Erwählten an, die mit allen Regeln der Vernunft bricht und die soziale Gemeinschaft gefährdet.

Die Debatte um Identität ist entgleist. Nicht nur in den USA, auch in Europa und in Deutschland steht die Frage im Raum: Wie konnte es so weit kommen? John McWhorter wendet sich der treibenden Kraft dieser Entwicklung zu: einer neuen Bewegung von...

In John McWhorter's Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publications since the 1990s have argued that all languages of the world that lack a certain three traits together are creoles (i.e. born as pidgins a few hundred years ago and fleshed out into real languages). He also argued that in light of their pidgin birth, such languages are less grammatically complex than others, as the result of their recent...