2023年7月19日 · One word has become unavoidable on the campaign trail — woke. But what does it really mean and where does it come from? The word has a long and serious history in Black culture.

Woke, the African-American English synonym for the General American English word awake, has since the 1930s or earlier been used to refer to awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans, often in the construction stay woke.

2023年12月20日 · Typically, “wokeness” and “woke ideology” are terms of abuse, used against a variety of practices that, despite their diversity, have a similar character. Often, what is dismissed as “woke” is a...

2025年1月31日 · The White House put a pause on funding federal programs to assess for "woke gender ideology" and DEI. ... the struggles of African Americans and was a word of empowerment for some Black people.

2024年10月22日 · What is a woke person? A woke person is someone aware of and actively addressing social and political injustices, particularly concerning race and gender. They advocate for equity, often challenging systemic biases and supporting marginalized communities.

2024年11月13日 · To be "woke" politically in the Black community means that someone is informed, educated and conscious of social injustice and racial inequality, Merriam-Webster Dictionary states.

2024年8月8日 · For years, conservative activists, lawmakers and politicians have used the term "woke" as a slam against progressive values and liberal initiatives. Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs has...

2024年11月4日 · Being “woke” often means having a certain moral superiority complex. In practical terms, a woke person is hyper-alert to issues like sexism, racism, LGBTQIA+ rights, environmental degradation, and basically anything that sounds unfair on paper or in reality.

Woke is now defined in this dictionary as “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice),” and identified as U.S. slang. It originated in African American English and gained more widespread use beginning in 2014 as part of the Black Lives Matter movement.

2023年3月9日 · During the 2023 Conservative Political Action Conference, speaker after speaker attacked "woke" ideology in their speeches to conservative activists. Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley...