Antiracism as Religion

    John McWhorter: Antiracism as Religion

    Part of the Spring 2022 series: Contemporary Controversies
    Monday, March 14, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. (CT)
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    KEYWORDS

    KEYWORDS

    Third-Wave Antiracism, Wokeness, Defund the Police, Systemic Racism, Christianity

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    Racial Slurs, Phonics, War on Drugs, Balance Literacy

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    Eclecticism, Linguistics, Black English, Dialect vs. Language, Virtue Signaling

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    About the Speaker
    john mcwhorter

    John McWhorter teaches linguistics, American Studies, and music history at Columbia University, hosts the language podcast Lexicon Valley, and writes a twice-weekly newsletter for the New York Times. His books include ones on language such as Words on the Move, The Language Hoax, The Power of Babel and Nine Nasty Words and ones on race such as Losing the Race and Woke Racism. He has also created several audiovisual sets on language for the Great Courses series.