John H. McWhorter, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writes and comments extensively on race, ethnicity and cultural issues for the Manhattan Institute. He also writes a regular column in the New York Sun. His newest book, All About the Beat: Why Hip Hop Can't Save Black America (Gotham Books), points beyond the empty gestures of the "hip-hop revolution" to a brave new politics for Black America, calling for a renewed sense of purpose and pride in black communities.

John McWhorter is also the author of the New York Times Best seller Losing the Race (Harper Perennial), and an anthology of race writings, Authentically Black (Gotham Books). McWhorter's book, Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America (Gotham Books) generated widespread acclaim. He was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Non-Fiction and has appeared numerous national TV and radio shows, such as Meet the Press, John McLaughlin's One on One, the O'Reilly Factor, and NPR's Fresh Air. McWhorter is also a well-known and widely published linguistics scholar. McWhorter's work on race and cultural issues has appeared in leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The National Review, City Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and New York Magazine.

In addition to his work for the Center for Race and Ethnicity, McWhorter is a noted linguist and the author of The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language, on how the world's languages arise, change, and mix, and Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music in America and Why We Should, Like, Care. He has also written a book on dialects and Black English, The Word on the Street, and three books on Creole languages. The Teaching Company released his 36-lecture audiovisual course The Story of Human Language in 2004. His latest academic book on linguistics is Defining Creole. The next, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, will be published in 2008.

John McWhorter earned his PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 1993 and became Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley after teaching at Cornell University.

Select Media:

• Special Report with Brit Hume, 8-14-08
• O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel, 8-10-08
• Laura Ingraham Show, Talk Radio Network, 7-15-08
• Special Report with Brit Hume, 7-10-08
• Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, 7-10-08
• Washington Journal, C-Span, 7-8-08 [PART I] [PART II]
• City Talk, CUNY TV, 7-5-08
• American Morning, CNN, 7-1-08
• Live Desk, Fox News Channel, 6-24-08
• News and Notes, NPR, 6-23-08
• Fox and Friends, Fox News Channel, 6-19-08
• In Depth C-Span's Book TV, 3-2-08

Articles/Op-eds

• 'Cab Ride, Interrupted New York Sun, 08-22-08
• 'Hope' Lacks Heft New York Sun, 08-14-08
• How the Next Generation will Conceptualize Race New York Magazine, 08-10-08
• The Rest of the Sentence... New York Sun, 07-31-08
• From Theatrics to Reality New York Sun, 07-17-08
• The Audacity of Pragmatism TheRoot.com, 07-09-08
• Obama and Bush Share Face New York Sun, 07-03-08
• Constantine Cries Wolf New York Sun, 06-27-08
• Conscious Rap Part II New York Sun, 06-19-08
• 'Conscious' Hiphop Fallacy New York Sun, 06-12-08
• Racism in Retreat New York Sun, 06-05-08
• Showing the Flag New York Sun, 05-29-08
• Conscious Rap That Isn't TheRoot.com, 05-21-08
• Classroom Warfare New York Sun, 05-21-08
• Race as a Sport New York Sun, 05-15-08
• Clinton's Monster New York Sun, 05-08-08
• Dashiki Posturing Of Wright New York Sun, 04-30-08
• Talking the Talk New York Times, 04-27-08
• Not Battling Racism New York Sun, 04-24-08
• 'Indoctrinate U.'—Type Episode New York Sun, 04-17-08
• Even Beneath the Haze, Blacks Used to Do Better TheRoot.com, 04-14-08
• A Second Chance Act New York Sun, 04-10-08
• Conversion of the Race Conversation New York Sun, 03-27-08
• 'The Wire': War of Truths New York Sun, 03-14-08
• Fighting Words in Education Crowds New York Sun, 02-28-08
• 'Obambi' Is Working It New York Sun, 02-22-08
• Blackness: A Quick and Dirty Primer TheRoot.com, 02-13-08
• Obama's American New York Sun, 02-07-08
• Welcoming Obama To Reality New York Sun, 01-31-08
• Crying Wolf Over Race New York Sun, 01-30-08
• Turn Up The Heat New York Sun, 01-24-08
• Bradley Effect R.I.P. New York Sun, 01-17-08
• Hillary and MLK Wall Street Journal, 01-16-08
• Change May Now Be Happening New York Sun, 01-10-08
• Black-on-Black Thought Crime New York Sun, 01-02-08
• Beware the Witches of Grammar New York Sun, 12-20-07
• Guidelines Leading Nowhere New York Sun, 12-13-07
• Stop the Black KKK New York Sun, 12-06-07
• The Lawnside Syndrome New York Sun, 11-29-07
• The Great Hope New York Sun, 11-28-07
• No More Excuses: Joel and Mike New York Sun, 11-08-07
• Racial Bias As Hurdle, Not Excuse Philadelphia Inquirer, 10-28-07
• Ghetto Pathology New York Sun, 10-25-07
• Walking Away From Hate New York Sun, 10-18-07
• Toward a New Rights Revolution New York Sun, 10-11-07
• Orthodox Campus New York Sun, 10-04-07
• Paradiso New York Sun, 09-26-07
• Exposing Bigotry New York Sun, 09-20-07
• Children in The Lurch New York Sun, 09-06-07
• Casual Killings New York Sun, 08-16-07
• Creole Vs. French New York Sun, 07-26-07
• Hangover From Brown New York Sun, 07-19-07
• One of the Bad Seeds New York Sun, 07-12-07
• A New Alphabet New York Sun, 06-28-07
• Up From Prohibition New York Sun, 06-21-07
• Letting Words Fly New York Sun, 06-07-07
• Poisoned Palate? New York Sun, 05-31-07
• What's the Point of Books? New York Sun, 05-24-07
• Dog Days of August New York Sun, 05-17-07
• What's in a Smile? New York Sun, 05-10-07
• Hating Whitey Worldwide New York Sun, 05-03-07
• Great Society Begets Bad Society New York Sun, 04-26-07
• The 'N' Word Wall Street Journal, 04-26-07
• Suicide Shooters New York Sun, 04-17-07
• Without Americanness National Review, 04-16-07
• A Dangerous Detour New York Daily News, 04-10-07
• Crises Of the Ex-Cons Crises Of the Ex-Cons, 04-12-07 PART III
• They're Finding Jobs New York Sun, 04-05-07 PART II
• The Truth About Ex-Cons New York Sun, 03-29-07 PART I
• Actions, Not Words New York Sun, 03-22-07
• Drama Queens on U.S. Airways New York Sun, 03-15-07
• Bringing Back the Campus New York Sun, 03-08-07
• Calling Each Other 'Dear' New York Sun, 03-01-07
• Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire New York Sun, 02-22-07
• The Revolution Will Be Modernized WashingtonPost.com, 02-01-07
• Saluting Robert Moses New York Sun, 02-01-07
• What is Blackness? New York Sun, 01-25-07
• Let Americans Learn Arabic New York Sun, 01-11-07
• Dying Languages New York Sun, 12-28-06 (This article also appeared on RealClearPolitics.com, 12-28-06)
• For Whom Bell Tolls New York Sun, 12-05-06
• Maintaining A Sense of Self New York Sun, 12-01-06
• O.J. Made Me Un-P.C. New York Sun, 11-22-06
• Letter to the GOP New York Sun, 11-16-06
• The View From Norway: Bilingual Ed New York Sun, 11-08-06
• Just Say Yes, Michigan New York Sun, 11-02-06
• The Upside of Obama New York Sun, 10-26-06
• Tribes v. Westerners New York Sun, 10-12-06
• An Awkward Weekend New York Sun, 10-5-06
• Threatening Tongues? New York Sun, 9-28-06
• Katrina's 'Secrets' National Review, 9-25-06
• Affirming inequality Catalyst Magazine, 9-22-06
• The Color of His Skin New York Sun, 9-21-06
• Getting Into Pacifists' Heads New York Sun, 9-11-06
• Cheering Our Own New York Sun, 8-31-06
• In Defense of Andrew Young Washington Post, 8-27-06
• The Perils Of 'Sensitivity' New York Sun, 8-24-06
• Katrina At Age One New York Sun, 8-17-06
• The Wasteful Legacy of Black Power New York Sun, 8-16-06
• Making Do With Table Scraps New York Sun, 7-27-06
• Ending Victim-Like Thinking New York Sun, 7-20-06
• Mainstreaming Men New York Sun, 6-19-06
• Madea and Her Methods Wall Street Journal, 5-27-06
• Juvenile Politics Under a Cute Afro New York Sun, 3-9-06
• Forebodings National Review, 2-27-06
• Defined by defiance Chicago Sun-Times, 1-22-06
• Don't believe the hype—rap anger isn't a meaningful message Los Angeles Times, 11-27-05
• Book Review: Dealers to Rappers Wall Street Journal, 11-18-05
• NBA Stars Should Trade "Street" Clothes for Dignified Duds Wall Street Journal, 11-8-05
• Calm down: Bennett's comments on abortion have been taken way out of context Dallas Morning News, 10-8-05
• Racism!’ They Charged National Review, 9-26-05
• Focus: White do-gooders did for black America The Times of London, 9-11-05
• Burned, Baby, Burned Washington Post, 8-14-05
• Black and White and Read All Over New York Times, 8-11-05
• When Producers Play the Race Card New York Sun, 4-19-05
• Book Review: A recapitulation, chapter & verse New York Sun, 2-9-05
• Black Americans must stop voting as a monolith Dallas Morning News, 11-9-04
• Why I'm Black, Not African American Los Angeles Times, 9-8-04
• NAACP Hasn't Advanced Anything in a Long Time Los Angeles Times, 7-15-04
• Bill Cosby Can't Say That, Can He? Dallas Morning News, 6-3-04
• African-Americans are finding their way politically Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3-27-04
• As racism recedes, blacks shift to center John H. McWhorter, Baltimore Sun, 3-24-04
• As Racism Recedes, More Blacks Shift to Political Center Los Angeles Times, 3-17-04
• Still Losing the Race? Commentary, 2-04
• Oh, R-o-ob, The Bad Words Won't Go Away Washington Post, 12-28-03
• Left Speechless In our tone-deaf culture, eloquent language has been lost, LA Times, 10-12-03
• Within Bounds New York Times, 10-4-03
• ‘My Master’s House’ Wall Street Journal, 9-17-03
• Rap Only Ruins New York Post, 8-10-03
• Blacks Should Feel Insulted, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 6-25-03
• Street Theater Wall Street Journal, 5-30-03
• Real Diversity After Bakke New York Sun, 4-23-03
• Up from Hip-Hop Commentary, March 2003
• Not Fit to Lead Wall Street Journal, 12-13-02
• Diversity's No Longer the Point, Is It? Washington Post, 12-8-02
• N.J.’s Insult to Blacks New York Post, 10-7-02
• Racial Profiling Opinion Journal.com, 9-13-02
• It Shouldn't Be Good to Have It Bad Washington Post, 8-4-02
• Black Isn't a Personality Type LA Times, 5-12-02
• Cornel West Gives Black Scholars a Bad Rap Wall Street Journal, 4-16-02

Interviews

• National Review Online's "Between the Covers", 06-19-08
• The Economist's Democracy in America, 6-13-08
• Booknotes.org March 2, 2004
• Going at the Changes In, Ya Know, English by Emily Eakin, New York Times, 11-15-03

Books

• All About the Beat: Why Hip Hop Can't Save Black America (Gotham Books, June 2008)
• Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America (Dutton and Gotham Books, February 2006)
• Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority (Gotham Books, January 2003)

City Journal Articles

• Looking Past Race, 26 March 2008
• Party of Chains, 8 February 2008
• Hip-Hop Graduates from Thuggery, 9 November 2007
• All Over the Field, 28 June 2007
• How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back, Summer 2003
• Who Should Get into College?, Spring 2003
• Job Loss Didn’t Make the Underclass, Autumn 2002
• Going to the Doggs, Autumn 2002
• Why Blacks Don’t Need Leaders, Summer 2002
• The Mau-Mauing at Harvard, Spring 2002
• The Reparations Racket, 29 March 2002
• The Campus Diversity Fraud, Winter 2002
• Racism Forever, Winter 2002
• Toward a Usable Black History, Summer 2001
• Why Blacks Should Give Bush a Chance, Spring 2001
• What’s Holding Blacks Back?, Winter 2001