Book Talk | Musa al-Gharbi | We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on November 18th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Musa al-Gharbi. He will discuss his new book We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite with Liza Featherstone and Thomas Frank.

Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His research explores how people think about, talk about, and produce shared knowledge about social phenomena including race, inequality, social movements, extremism, policing, national security, foreign policy and domestic U.S. political contests. Dr. al-Gharbi is also a columnist for The Guardian whose freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic and The Nation among other publications.

Liza Featherstone is a columnist for Jacobin, as well as for the New Republic’s “Apocalypse Soon” vertical. She’s also a contributing writer to The Nation, and has written for In These Times and many other publications. At NYU, she teaches in the Literary Reportage program at the Arthur Carter Journalism Institute.

Thomas Frank is the author of The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism, Listen, Liberal, Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, and What’s the Matter with Kansas? A former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper’s, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler. He lives outside Washington, D.C.