John Hamilton McWhorter V

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John Hamilton McWhorter V is an American linguist with a specialty in Creole languages, sociolects, and Black English. He is currently Associate Professor of Linguistics at Columbia University, where he also teaches American studies and music history.

1965

Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, USA

African American

Much of McWhorter’s academic work is concerned with Creole languages and their relationship to other languages, often focusing on the Surinam Creole language Saramaccan.

In January 2017, McWhorter was a speaker in the Linguistic Society of America’s inaugural Public Lectures on Language series.

McWhorter is fluent in three languages (English, French and Russian), some competence in spoken Japanese and can read seven languages (including some Mandarin).

John McWhorter V is currently associate Professor of Linguistics at Columbia University where he also teaches American studies and music history. He is the author of a number of books on race relations, hiphop and African American culture.

Schelsture Gordon McWhorter and John Hamilton McWhorter IV
Siblings – Holly McWhorter

“Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.”
John McWhorter

It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it’s just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students’ repertoire rather than teaching them out of what’s thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.
John McWhorter

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