awokening
Etymology
Blend of woke (“holding left-wing views toward social justice”) + awakening, influenced by Great Awakening, any of several periods of religious revival in the United States. Attested from the 2010s.
noun
- A progressive or leftist political or social movement or attitude, especially toward social justice issues, or the effects of such a movement.“It could be argued that the rise of the socially conscious model reflects a very 2017 archetype: the “woke” young woman, who looks set to define femininity this decade in the same way that the lager-swilling ladette did in the 90s. It is also symptomatic of a broader cultural “awokening” that has reached the stuffiest institutions; even the royal family has recently relaxed its upper lip.”
- Media or political discourse displaying or commenting on woke stances toward social justice.“Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2014 article making the case for reparations was obviously enormously influential on the specifics of that question, but also more broadly in the larger Awokening — such that references to redlining and other discriminatory aspects of the post-World War II real estate market are now commonplace throughout progressive circles.”