Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America's Lingua Franca

“In Talking Back, Talking Black, John McWhorter, the maestro at communicating linguistics to the public, succeeds in helping the reader to ‘actually hear Black English in a new way,’ while hipping linguists to some features of this vibrant variety they might not have considered before.” —John R. Rickford, former president of the Linguistic Society of America and coauthor of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English

“McWhorter debunks…