Columns
SCHWARZ & SPARACIO | Free Speech on Campus?
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We might conclude that free speech does not allow for hate speech whether from ignorance or malice, but is an evolving, fluid concept depending on good will and human decency.
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PLOWE | Awakening
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Content Warning: This article contains mention of racist killings. We all know what woke means, or rather, what it has come to mean for conservatives who fear “woke” people corrupting their schools. White liberal culture has appropriated the word from its origin in African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and conservatives love to respond to the appropriated concept.
In the song “Master Teacher Melody” Erykah Badu repeats “I stay woke” as she describes her search for herself and beauty in a racist society. Written by soul singer Georgia Anne Muldrow, who sings the refrain “I stay woke,” the song imagines a hopeful future for African Americans while acknowledging the reality of the systemic issues they face. Can we step away from woke as an appropriated buzzword and recognize AAVE wokeness’ role in social and psychological healing?
Arts & Culture
YANDAVA | Wokeness? In My Period Drama?
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A little bit of nuance would go a long way.
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DANBERG BIGGS | A Bit More Beard, or a Somewhat Fearful Ideology
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Thus there is a genuine terror, which I believe to be absolutely common, that my community might not think that I am the way I ought to be. This fear, I think, is at the heart of the aesthetic preoccupation that often drives our campus politics.