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- The Story of Human Language, Part 2 of 3
- The Story of Human Language, Part 3 of 3
- The Story of Human Language, Part 1 of 3
- Language Families of the World
- Pronoun Trouble
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
John Hamilton McWhorter V is an American linguist and associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, where he teaches linguistics, American studies, philosophy, and music history.
Known for
- If You Can Make It Here — Self2026
- Jussie Smollett: Anatomy of a Hoax — Self - Author, Woke Racism2023
- Firing Line with Margaret Hoover2018
- Best of Enemies — Self2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest2015
- Real Time with Bill Maher — Self2003
- The View — Self - Guest1997
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1965-10-06
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John Hamilton McWhorter V (1965– ) is an American linguist and political commentator. He is the author of a number of books on language and on race relations. His linguistic specialty is creole and the process through which it forms. McWhorter was born and raised in Philadelphia. He attended Friends Select School in Philadelphia, and after tenth grade was accepted to Simon's Rock College, where he earned an A.A. degree. Later, he attended Rutgers University and received a B. <a href="https://ww
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- John
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- male
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- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Occupation
- writer
- Employer
- Columbia University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Participant in
- A Letter on Justice and Open Debate
- Field of work
- politics
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- 1965-10-06
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- African Americans
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