Woke against Woke?
Abstract
The term ‘woke’, initially coined by African Americans in the 1930s as an injunction to stay mindful of racial inequalities, has over the last decade come to be used to signify an awareness about any sort of discrimination. Wokeism combats the proud White Male who has been colonizing the non-West for centuries. Critical Race Theory argues that the social and legal construction of race advances the interests of white people. Normally, all this should very much appeal to the non-West. However, one can also be colonized by wokesim. Paradoxically, wokeism can be defined as a new colonial policy. Against this background it is possible to determine non-Western anti-woke ideologies whose patterns seem to function in parallel Western wokeness.
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