Armanjot Bhangu
Section: A04
Week #10
For the final week of readings, I chose to read “Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke”. In this reading, the author mainly goes over the basic idea of “being woke” and what it consists of. Recently however, the word woke has started to become overused in both academia and in social settings causing the meaning of it to get watered down. This is related to the fact that in academia, Asian American women are often silenced and are thus not allowed to be as “woke” as their male counterparts. This relative inability to be woke limits them in terms of what type of work they can publish, how they go about publishing it, and in general their academic career. Therefore, they can unfortunately be viewed as not being up to date with the current times and unable to keep up with modern trends. With that in mind, my final audio/visual addition will be the Childish Gambino song, “Redbone” which contains probably the most popular use of the word woke in recent years.
QUESTION:
Why has the use of the word “woke” risen in recent years especially in pop culture?
REFERENCES:
Glover, D. (2016, November 17). Retrieved March 10, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7eSUU9oy8
Valverde, C. Conclusion: Academics Awaken: power, Resistance, and Being Woke. Fight the Tower.
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