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Woke

Woke is an adjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction stay woke, recorded since at least 1924. The term acquired political connotations by the 1970s and gained further popularity in the 2010s with the hashtag #staywoke. Over time…

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Woke-washing and woke capitalism

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Woke

Nodes230
Edges229
Triples175
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008696
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related to 20th century · 23
Woke → Africa, Aja Romano, Alabama, America, Americans, Black American, Ethiopia, Garvey, Huddie Ledbetter, In, Jamaican, Lauryn Hill, Lead Belly, Let, Let Africa, Marcus Garvey, MTV Unplugged No, One, Scottsboro, Scottsboro Boys
related to 2015–2019: Broadening usage · 18
Woke → According, African American, African Americans, André Brock, Black Twitter, Charles Pulliam-Moore, Columnist David Brooks, Georgia Institute, Google, Gordana Lazić, Internet, It, Sociologist Marcyliena Morgan, Technology, The, Twitter, Vox's Aja Romano, While
see also · 18
Woke → Britain, Casting, Christian, Derogatory Chinese, Distortion, Far-right, Frameworks, Great Awakening, Marxism, Measures, Pejorative, Political, Style, That, Theory, Thirteen Colonies, United States, US
related to Reception and legacy · 17
Woke → Althea Legal-Miller, Candis Watts Smith, Chloé Valdary, Essayist Maya Binyam, Making All Black Lives, Martin Luther King Jr, Matter, McCormack, People's Guide, Scholars Michael, Social-justice, Stay Woke, Striving, Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, The Awl, Woker-than-Thou-itis, Writer
related to Woke-washing and woke capitalism · 16
Woke → Abas Mirzaei, According, African-American, By, Colin Kaepernick, Examples, Gillette's, In, Kendall Jenner, Macquarie University, Nike's, Pepsi, Ross Douthat, Sam Sanders, The, The Economist
related to Origins and usage · 13
Woke → Abraham Lincoln, African-American English, Connecticut, Hartford, In, Local, Massachusetts, Republican, The, This, United States, While, Wide Awakes
related to 2019–present: emergence of pejorative use · 12
Woke → Author Sergio, British, By, Daniel Bernabé, Fanjul, Gen, Millennials, Steven Poole, Susan Neiman, The, The Economist, This
related to Woke 2.0 · 12
Woke → Ben Collins, Commentators, Dark Woke, Donald Trump, During, Harvard, Hasan Piker, Kylie Cheung, Others, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Trump, Zohran Mamdani
related to 2008–2014: #Staywoke hashtag · 10
Woke → Badu's, Childish Gambino's, Erykah Badu's, In, Master Teacher, Merriam-Webster, Redbone, The, This, Through
related to 2014–2015: Black Lives Matter · 8
Woke → Black Lives Matter, BLM, Following, May, Michael Brown, Stay Woke, The BET, Within

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term used social black political also stay progressive right american white among left united use party right-wing states race conservative

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Wokeis aadjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination0.90text
sexisminstance ofwoke came to be used to refer to a broader awareness of social inequalities0.80text
denial of LGBTQ rightsinstance ofwoke came to be used to refer to a broader awareness of social inequalities0.80text
cancel cultureinstance ofalong with other ideas0.80text
critical race theoryinstance ofalong with other ideas0.80text
became a large part of Republican Party electoral strategyinstance ofalong with other ideas0.80text
Rod Dreherinstance ofconservative commentators0.80text
James Ainstance ofconservative commentators0.80text
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sanghinstance ofthe term is used as a pejorative by Hindutva activists and Hindu nationalists to refer to the critics of the Hindu nationalist ideology who are deemed as anti-Hindu by the Hindu…0.80text
adopting inclusive languageinstance ofresulting in practical implementations0.80text
reconfiguring education or deconstructing gender norms.United KingdomIn the United Kingdominstance ofresulting in practical implementations0.80text
anti-wokeness discourse is driven primarily by Conservative Party politiciansinstance ofresulting in practical implementations0.80text

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