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Musa al-Gharbi on Different Matters, the origins of woke ideology, symbolic capitalism and the new "woke" elite

Musa al-Gharbi on Different Matters, the origins of woke ideology, symbolic capitalism and the new "woke" elite

Update: 2025-07-16
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Musa al-Gharbi is an American sociologist. He is an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. 

Al-Gharbi is the author of the 2024 book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, a study of the history and political economy of the knowledge professions from the interwar period through the present, published by Princeton University Press.

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Musa al-Gharbi on Different Matters, the origins of woke ideology, symbolic capitalism and the new "woke" elite

Musa al-Gharbi on Different Matters, the origins of woke ideology, symbolic capitalism and the new "woke" elite

Damien Grant