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Book Chapter
STAY WOKE
2019
Overview
Arguably one of the most poignant scenes of contemporary African American film history is the ending of Spike Lee’s School Daze (1988). Vaughn “Dap” Dunlap (Larry Fishburne) sprints onto the yard of the fictitious historically black Mission College pointedly at the crack of dawn and loudly beseeches his fellow classmates and black viewers alike to “wake up!” Although stay woke has gained traction as a millennial phrase popularized by the Black Lives Matter movement, permutations have existed, I would imagine, since Europeans first set foot on the African continent. “Staying woke” is to employ bell hooks’s “oppositional gaze”¹ or to
Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN
9780295746630, 0295746637
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