Reclaiming "wokeness" and a basic social justice reading list

Also, could the midcentury author Edna Ferber be considered "woke"?

It really aggravates me that the right has appropriated the concept of “wokeness” and twisted it into an insult. Not long ago, to be woke meant becoming aware of injustice and striving to correct wrongs of the past.

Here’s a worthwhile article about the origins of the concept and how it has been stolen by people who want to shut down discourse and rewri…