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John McWhorter books: every book John McWhorter wrote and recommended
Across 2 podcasts. Every show John McWhorter appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by John McWhorter
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Winning the Race
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The Creole Debate
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The word on the street
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Losing the race
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Defining Creole
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Linguistic simplicity and complexity
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The Missing Spanish Creoles
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The power of Babel
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The language hoax
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Pronoun Trouble
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Woke Racism
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Nine Nasty Words
Books recommended by John McWhorter
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Woke Racism
Woke Racism by John McWhorter is a critical examination of contemporary social justice movements, arguing that a new dogmatic ideology functions similarly to a traditional religion and negatively impacts Black America.
Discussed“so woke racism was not a book meant to just complain about the woke it's not a book that Tucker Carlson would have written what I was writing was that black people are being hurt by people who call themselves helping us”
Where to get it
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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?
Critiqued“frankly he wrote a book about 10 years ago called who's afraid of post blackness”
Where to get it
Appearances
Other mentions (15: passing, ad reads, own books)
Plugged Pronoun Trouble
“and so for example in pronoun trouble I don't go there because I think it's just too early and I didn't want to write about something that creates so much anger so much confusion”
Plugged Woke Racism
“honestly bar the way I do these books is that I write an angry one and then I write a happy one so that I'll feel better so w racism is a is the angry one”
Plugged Losing the Race
“I wrote a book called losing the race it was 2000 it was an angry book about race”
Plugged Woke Racism
“in woke racism one reason I should stop saying this about my book because then nobody's going to want to read it anymore but it's becoming a little obsolete in that I kind of poo poo what we now call the woke right”
“I write a column for the New York Times and my most recent two books were nine nasty words about profanity and woke racism about race and cultural issues”
Plugged Woke Racism
“I write a column for the New York Times and my most recent two books were nine nasty words about profanity and woke racism about race and cultural issues”
Passing Bible
“So, of course, maybe there's a Bible. Maybe you see them on signs occasionally.”
Plugged Woke Racism
“so woke racism was not a book meant to just complain about the woke it's not a book that Tucker Carlson would have written”
Plugged Woke Racism
“So 'Woke Racism' was not a book meant to just complain about the woke; it's not a book that Tucker Carlson would have written. What I was writing was that black people are being hurt by people who call themselves helping us and that we need to start being able to tell the difference.”
Plugged Woke Racism
“you know what that woman is who I wrote woke racism for that is exactly what I mean”
Plugged Woke Racism
“You know what that woman is? That’s who I wrote 'Woke Racism' for; that is exactly what I mean. That is somebody whose heart is very much in the right place, but she’s so afraid of being called the dirtiest name other than pedophile in our current cultural vocabulary that she’s basically hamstrung.”
Plugged The language hoax
“so i wrote the language hoax because it really started to stick in my crawl that a lot of people end up believing this media kind of morphianism as opposed to academic psychological warfare ism which is you know irrefutably true and i was i was bemused i'm glad that book got around more than i expected”
Plugged Woke Racism
“and i'm not just trying to yank it back to woke racism to push the book but i'm really thinking about this my book is about people it's actually i'm known for saying things black people don't like black a lot of black people aren't going to like woke racism”
Plugged Woke Racism
“and this book has been written to blow the whistle on it”
Passing Between the World and Me
“like one of them was tanahasi coates book um between the world and me and four others that were kind of like that”