A spectre is haunting the university: the spectre of woke. It haunts those who inhabit the castle, without them being able to precisely locate, or arrest, the source of this unrest. Witness the recent Laurens Buijs controversy at the University of Amsterdam. This instructor in Interdisciplinary … 
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traces of ‘woke’ in 20th-century U.S. history
In recent years, ‘woke’ has been appropriated as a slur. Originally denoting attentiveness to social discrimination and wrongs against marginalized groups, the term ‘woke’ has been co-opted to denounce such attentiveness as political correctness gone awry. Reactionary voices (Lilla, 2016) dismiss …
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The word woke, with a long history in Black resistance movements in the United States, has come to international attention only because it has been weaponized by the right (“Woke”, 2023). Just as Critical Race Theory, an academic movement originating with legal scholars in the 1980s, has become the …