Typically when people seek the origins of woke ideology, they point to this or that philosopher or philosophical movement. Richard Hanania says the answer is far more mundane: it is a direct result of the idiosyncratic twists and turns of civil rights law. Thus wokeism is in fact a creature of the state.

Book Discussed: The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics

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