Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This paper critiques postcolonial unreason, or more specifically, the liberal ideology of wokeism in the United States, with its many facets from cancel culture to identity politics. Wokeism is distinguished from wokeness--the latter is defined as a dialectical materialist praxis. A genealogy of leftism in the U.S. is unpacked to contextualize the debate. The irrational epistemology of wokeism is revealed from Marxist and psychoanalytic perspectives. Postcolonial unreason is contrasted with the historical reason of decolonial thinking.
Author: Robert Beshara
Institution: Northern New Mexico College
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4406632669