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Beyond Woke: How elite language preoccupations perpetuated injustice while hurting Democrats' electoral prospects

Musa al-Gharbi will share his analysis of why Democratic candidates have faltered in recent electoral cycles. al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. He is a columnist for The Guardian and the author of We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite.

Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His research primarily focuses on the political economy of knowledge production and the social life of scholarly and journalistic outputs. He is a columnist for The Guardian, and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and more. al-Gharbi’s first book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, was published by Princeton University Press in October 2024.

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