The campaign against ‘woke’ is no ordinary culture war skirmish – it is a project to restore the violence of white rule.


Yannick Giovanni Marshall holds a PhD in African Studies from Columbia University and has taught Contemporary Black Thought at the California Institut... e of the Arts. An educator and writer in exile, his forthcoming book, The End of Supplication: The Invention of Prostrate Blackness as a Replacement for the Maroon (Bloomsbury, 2025), examines how traditions of Black resistance have been politically neutralised into performances of deference.
The campaign against ‘woke’ is no ordinary culture war skirmish – it is a project to restore the violence of white rule.

Amid all the celebrations of Trump returning to US power, turncoat rappers kissing his ring have left the rawest wound.

Every four years we are told ‘change is coming’ and then made to wait for it, again and again.

It would be helpful to clarify what the Palestinians are really being offered as part of this much-lauded solution.

Settler white supremacy everywhere shares one dream.

I’m not surprised my alma mater is at the centre of the anti-colonial student rebellion and colonist effort to crush it.

Colonists continue to steal from Dr King’s messages and memory to advance the system he was killed for opposing.

An anti-colonial future is bursting forth. People are waking up. Yes, they are woke.

A sitting governor and a former president are facing off in a white supremacist race for power.

Those who spread conspiracy theories do not do so out of ignorance, but because they are white power propagandists.
