Background
McWhorter, John Hamilton was born on October 6, 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Hamilton and Schelysture Anne (Gordon) McWhorter.
(Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off...)
Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off, this penetrating and profound collection of essays by the controversial thinker and passionate advocate for racial enlightenment and achievement explores what it means to be black in America today. According to the author, nearly forty years after the Civil Rights Act, African-Americans in this country still remain "a race apart." He feels that modern black Americans have internalized a tacit message: "authentically black" people stress initiative in private but cloak the race in victimhood in public in order to protect black people from an ever-looming white backlash. He terms this the "New Double Consciousness" in homage to W.E.B. DuBois' description of a different kind of double consciousness in blacks a century ago. Within this context McWhorter takes the reader on a guided tour through the race issues dominant in our moment: racial profiling, getting past race, the reparations movement, black stereotypes in film and television, hip-hop, diversity, affirmative action, the word nigger, and Cornel West's resignation from Harvard. With his fierce intelligence and fervent eloquence, McWhorter makes a powerful case for the advancement of true racial equality. A timely and important work about issues that must be addressed by blacks and whites alike, Authentically Black is a book for Americans of every racial, social, political, and economic persuasion.
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( John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among li...)
John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed. That model maintains that plantation creole languages emerged because African slaves greatly outnumbered whites on colonial plantations. Having little access to the slaveholders' European languages, the slaves were forced to build a new language from what fragments they did acquire. Not so, says McWhorter, who posits that plantation creole originated in West African trade settlements, in interactions between white traders and slaves, some of whom were eventually transported overseas. The evidence that most New World creoles were imports traceable to West Africa strongly suggests that the well-established limited access model for plantation creole needs revision. In forcing a reexamination of this basic tenet, McWhorter's book will undoubtedly cause controversy. At the same time, it makes available a vast amount of data that will be a valuable resource for further explorations of genesis theory.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520219996/?tag=2022091-20
( There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth...)
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 languages around the world, including pidgins, Creoles, and nonstandard dialects.
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McWhorter, John Hamilton was born on October 6, 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John Hamilton and Schelysture Anne (Gordon) McWhorter.
Associate of Arts, Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1983. Bachelor in French, Rutgers University, 1985. Master of Arts in American Civilization, New York University, 1987.
Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, Stanford University, 1993.
Assistant professor linguistics Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1994—1995. Associate professor linguistics University California, Berkeley, since 1995. Senior fellow Manhattan Institute, New York City, since 2002.
Contributing editor New Republic Magazine, since 2001, City Journal Magazine, since 2001. Editorial board Journal Pidgin and Creole Languages, since 1996.
(Picking up where the bestselling Losing the Race left off...)
( There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth...)
( John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among li...)
Member civil rights reviewing authority United States Department Education, Washington, since 2002. Board directors Center New Black Leadership, since 2001.