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John McWhorter

John McWhorter teaches linguistics at Columbia University. He is the author of Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America.

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June 25, 2009
John McWhorter
Michael Jackson: The Man Who Wasn't There
June 16, 2009
John McWhorter
Apparently I'm Still Wrong About The NAACP
June 15, 2009
John McWhorter
Graduation Season: Why Do Students Have To Wait Until 21 To Commence?
June 9, 2009
John McWhorter
The Wise Latina Racist? Please.
June 2, 2009
John McWhorter
Disney Gets It Right
June 2, 2009
John McWhorter
Why Sonia Sotomayor Came Out Okay Despite The Height Of The Building She Grew Up In
May 27, 2009
John McWhorter
Oh, The Humanity: Ida, Cooking, Cooing And How Homo Became Sapiens
May 24, 2009
John McWhorter
Should We Have To Read The Bard Before Hearing Him? More On Shakespeare
May 21, 2009
John McWhorter
Where Hiphop Is "going" And Where It Never Was
May 19, 2009
John McWhorter
Will Shakespeare's Come And Gone: Does The Bard's Poetry Reach Us Like August Wilson's? Come On--really?
May 15, 2009
John McWhorter
Big Bosoms And The Big Bang: Did The Human Condition Really Emerge In Europe??
May 11, 2009
John McWhorter
Why How Obama Talks Is More Interesting Than How Michael Steele Tries To
May 5, 2009
John McWhorter
Saletan Responds: Ok, Let's Try This
May 1, 2009
John McWhorter
Lions And Sailers And Bears, Oh My!--why Saletan Thinks We Should Keep The Black-white Performance Gap Under Wraps
April 24, 2009
John McWhorter
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce: The Cornell Takeover Redux At Stanford, 1989
April 24, 2009
John McWhorter
Debating Preferences: Class Versus Race
April 22, 2009
John McWhorter
Moving Beyond Bias
April 16, 2009
John McWhorter
What Do They Speak In Darfur?
April 10, 2009
John McWhorter
A Voice From The Other Side: Listening To Your Elder
March 24, 2009
John McWhorter
Is The Naacp's Relevance Fading? They Think Not, I Still Think So

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