WOKISM AND DYNAMIZATION OF SOCIAL MINORITIES

If there is one thing that is more characteristc of the ongoing century, it is the rise in power of social minorities.This trend is apprehended as one of the signs that show the failure of enlightment era, an epoch whose forerunners, out of pretention, have so far defended.Indeed, they have always presented that era as the one which is adapted to human elevation in dignity.However, its evaluation after the last three centuries reveals that it rather increased the power in the hands of small aristocratic groups to the detriment of the basic rights of the weakest social minorities.As reaction, those minorities, under the banner of "wokism", show themselves more expressive against the disregard of their rights.Within this context, it is necessary to wonder about this recurring concept in debates on the emergence of new identities.This is the motive which underlines its inclusion at the core of the present study in which we aim at understanding its origins, its evolution up to its appropriation by social minorities as well as its contribution to the new identities legitimation process.In this study, symbolic interactionism as a theory helps apprehend wokism as a means to show the pivotal role of racial minorities, namely African-Americans in the popularization of that concept on a global scale.