Woke

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/1/2023
  

  Amid Anti-Woke Panic, Interdisciplinary Programs Inherently Vulnerable

  by Timothy Messer-Kruse

  Because standards of academic freedom like those of the AAUP tie that freedom to expertise within recognized professional communities of scholars, those doing interdisciplinary work and working in programs like ethnic studies have less institutional protection against charges that they are engaged in politics rather than scholarship. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/9/2023
  

  Americans Can and Must Fight Back Against Anti-Woke Authoritarians

  by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  Signs are emerging that Americans won't be persuaded by moral panics to surrender the freedom to learn. What can this counteroffensive build on? 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  4/9/2023
  

  "Woke" Indoctrination of Students is a Myth

  by Glenn C. Altschuler and David Wippman

  There is virtually no evidence that liberal professors are successfully indoctrinating students, or that they're even trying. But the myth is behind a host of measures that threaten higher education. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/21/2023
  

  When Right Wingers Struggle with Defining "Woke" it Shows they Oppose Pursuing Equality

  by Adam Serwer

  "To believe that the disadvantages of race, class, and gender imposed lawfully over centuries never occurred or entirely disappeared in just a few decades is genuinely “radical” in a negative way; to believe that creating those disadvantages was wrong and that they should be rectified is not."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/18/2023
  

  Kendi: "Anti-woke" Part of Backlash Against Antiracist Protest Movements

  Critics have charged that Ibram X. Kendi's writing portrays racism as an all-powerful and unchangeable force in American society. He says that, in fact, understanding racism as "constructed" means it can be deconstructed. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/17/2023
  

  Vincent Lloyd: What's Gone Wrong with Antiracist Politics

  The Villanova professor explains the incidents that led him to ask whether a center-right critique of antiracist rhetoric and discursive rules has some justification, and how a broader coalition against domination can be rescued from some censorious excesses.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  2/16/2023
  

  The Specter of Woke Corporate Communism Haunts the Republican Mind

  by Steve Fraser

  How do you run a politically useful Cold War without any actual Communism? Just declare that the organs of global capitalism are, in fact, red—borrowing some anti-Semitic tropes along the way.