The people who co-opted, redefined and weaponized the 80-year-old Black expression have finally settled on a concise, standardized definition for "woke.
glaude? this is a kind of relitigation of the old culture wars. this is harold bloom s the closing of american minds. i have been sitting here trying to keep my cool because i m so angry. there s a sense in which the stakes of what desantis is doing are very high. you have to read this moment yesterday against the backdrop of a report just recently released in the journal of american medical association showing that over the last two decades, black communities have experienced an excess of 1.6 million deaths compared to white folk, and why is that the case? it s a culture of inequality, health care disparity, legacies of rayism and what desantis is doing is cultivating a willful ignorance. it s not an abstract question. it s a question of life and death in some instances and rehashing an old argument by this moment should be getting on
A conversation with Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts about Du Bois's thinking on imperialism, transnational solidarity, and their recent collection, W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought.