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John McWhorter is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. His specialty is pidgin and creole languages, about which he has written two academic books. He is the author of Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English , and the best-selling Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America . McWhorter has been interviewed in The New York Times, Newsweek and other periodicals and he has appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including D ateline NBC,The Today Show and National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation . He lives in Oakland, California.
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