Hegemony: Welfare, Police, Protests
<p>Lull’s opening statement — that “<strong>hegemony</strong> is the power or dominance that one social group holds over others” is clearly pertinent to the world as it is in the 21st Century, in the 2020s: the past few years as have been shaped by police brutality, protests, the covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the January 6th insurrection (to name but a few). As has been pointed out by many a scholar — <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-black-plague" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Keeanga-Yaamahta Taylor, from Princeton, among them</a> — people of color’s over-representation among those most impacted by COVID is a direct result of the <strong>wealth inequities of racism</strong> that have placed people of color among the essential workers (members of the <strong>proletariat</strong>) and thus having faced the daily risk of exposure (which continues to this day).</p>
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