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    John Hamilton McWhorter V (/məkˈhwɔːrtər/; born October 6, 1965) is an American linguist with a specialty in creole languages, sociolects, and Black English...
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  • McWhorter or MacWhorter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander MacWhorter (1734–1807), American clergyman Alexander MacWhorter...
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  • Review. 73 (4): 1003–1011. doi:10.2307/1953984. JSTOR 1953984. McWhorter, John, "John McWhorter: How Welfare Went Wrong", NPR, August 9, 2006. Weir, Robert...
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  • Retrieved 17 June 2012. "In Depth with John McWhorter". In Depth. C-SPAN. Retrieved 17 June 2012. Presentation by WcWhorter on Losing the Race at Marcus Books...
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    of the controversy with John McWhorter and Mikael Parkvall opposing Henri Wittmann (1999) and Michel DeGraff. In McWhorter's definition, creoleness is...
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  • and popularized by Generation Alpha. According to American linguist John McWhorter, the term "evolved from 'goddamn'." According to Kelly Elizabeth Wright...
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    associated with politics on either the left or the right. Linguist John McWhorter analyzed the linguistic attributes of the chant in The Atlantic, likening...
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    Routledge. McWhorter, John Hamilton (2011). "8. Affixless in Austronesian: Why Flores is a puzzle and what to do about it". In McWhorter (ed.). Linguistic...
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  • differing from Standard American English. African American linguist John McWhorter argues that the use of the term does more to hinder than to help black...
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    substantial over the original clip that was being reacted to. Linguist John McWhorter of the New York Times commented on her use of Black English words and...
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    anti-racism" along with Glenn Loury, Thomas Chatterton Williams and John McWhorter. In December 2020, Hughes was listed on the Forbes 30-under-30 list...
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  • ethical violations for quoting I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin, John McWhorter wrote that efforts to condemn racist language by white Americans had...
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  • he would shift the ground of critics of "acting white". Commentators John McWhorter and Stephen J. Dubner have said that it might. Yahanna of the Israelite...
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  • Make a Deal on the N-Word: White folks will stop using it, and black folks will stop pretending that quoting it is saying it," John McWhorter, The Root...
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  • checklist features can sometimes be found in non-creole languages as well. John McWhorter, in a comprehensive survey of all known creoles, argued that the absence...
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    Scholar John McWhorter calls Angelou's books "tracts" that defend African American culture and fight negative stereotypes. According to McWhorter, Angelou...
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    e-mail slang and have no place in business communication". Linguist John McWhorter stated, "Lol is being used in a particular way. It's a marker of empathy...
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  • Retrieved May 25, 2024. "Real Time With Bill Maher Ep 17: May 31, 2024: John Waters, David Axelrod, Ken Buck | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO...
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  • drawn between racist feelings and white racial advantage or privilege. John McWhorter, a specialist in language and race relations, explains the gradual replacement...
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    vigilantes calling themselves "woke busters". Linguist and social critic John McWhorter argues that the history of woke is similar to that of politically correct...
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    Lucullus Virgil McWhorter (January 29, 1860 – October 10, 1944) was an American farmer and frontiersman who documented the historical Native American...
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    2021.[citation needed] Loury hosts The Glenn Show on his Substack with John McWhorter, often regarding questions of race and education.[non-primary source...
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    by the arrest of many of our students." In reference to protesters, John McWhorter, a Columbia professor, said, "I find it very hard to imagine that they...
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    (born 1968), actress. Clive Lythgoe (1927–2006), classical pianist. John McWhorter (born 1965), linguist and author. Victor Moore (1876–1962), actor. Billy...
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  • result of decreolization from a widespread American creole. Linguist John McWhorter maintains that the contribution of West African languages to AAVE is...
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    period between 1875 and 1930, which is after that studied by Goddard. John McWhorter, an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, compares...
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  • Matthew Yglesias, economists Glenn Loury and Emily Oster, linguist John McWhorter, journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss, and authors Daniel M. Lavery...
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  • personalities and moral choices and the universal human experience. Linguist John McWhorter, writing in The Atlantic, called the book "a racist tract", saying it...
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  • 1960s in the African-American upper class. African-American linguist John McWhorter has bemoaned attacks on the use of Negro in "utterances or written reproductions...
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  • Hamilton Pierce "Mac" McWhorter (born June 17, 1950) is an American football coach and former player. He is the head coach assistant and offensive line...
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