Question of the Day #630

The trouble with ‘woke’

From the headline of this article at Spiked.

上記の文で、wokeの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "woke" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈米俗〉ウォークな◆社会的不公正、人種差別、性差別などに対する意識が高いこと◆【名】wokeness◆【参考】stay woke

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)

語源

英辞郎によると、

【語源】アフリカ系アメリカ人が話す英語では、awake（目覚めて、油断のない）の意味でwokeが使われていることから。

Etymology

According to i News,

Once upon a time, it simply meant the past participle of ‘wake’. While that has rapidly changed in recent years, the modern definition of the word isn’t that new in the US.
In 1962 the New York Times published an article of “phrases and words you might hear today in Harlem”, a neighbourhood in the northern section of the New York City where many African-Americans live.
The African-American novelist William Melvin Kelley wrote the earliest known use of the word under its new definition in an article titled, “If you’re woke, you dig it”.
Ten years later in 1972, a character in the Barry Beckham play Garvey Lives! says he’ll “stay woke” via the work of pan-Africanist, Marcus Garvey, with the line: “I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr Garvey done woke me up, I’m gon stay woke. And I’m gon’ help him wake up other black folk”.

Examples

• In light of incidents of police brutality, it’s important to stay woke.
• He took one African American history class and now he thinks he’s woke.
• We're trying to make woke choices in life.
• But we will only succeed if we reject the growing pressure to retreat into cynicism and hopelessness. … We have a moral obligation to "stay woke," take a stand and be active; challenging injustices and racism in our communities and fighting hatred and discrimination wherever it rises. — Barbara Lee
• … argued that … Brad Pitt is not only woke, but the wokest man in Hollywood … because he uses his status—and his production company Plan B—to create space for artists of color, with such films as 12 Years a Slave, Selma, and the upcoming film Moonlight. — Giselle Defares

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