
The Rise and (Likely) Fall of Wokeness
Woke culture emerged from elite shifts in identity politics, abandoning the economic roots of social justice.
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Vivek Chibber is Professor of Sociology at New York University. His most recent book is The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn (Harvard University Press, 2022).

Woke culture emerged from elite shifts in identity politics, abandoning the economic roots of social justice.