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S. culture. S. ), it now became far more polyvalent, far more complexly articulated. S. culture has adopted a far more pluralistic cast. With respect to race, this means that genres of music, art, and language retain their bases in particular communities while at the same time "crossing over" with far greater regularity than was previously the case. 1 This does not mean that a "cultural revolution," along the lines proposed by Harold Cruse in the 1960s, has been or even could be achieved (Cruse 1968: 111-12).
In this view, social justice in all its forms—class-based, race-based, and gender-based—is achieved only through a combined political and moral vision. This suggests that the pragmatic liberal and radical democratic projects can learn from the right, just as the racial reaction learned from the minority movements of the 1960s. In order to overcome right-wing populism's racist politics of resentment, notions of equality and fairness must be rethought in the combined light of race and class (and gender).
Under hegemonic conditions, opposition and difference are not repressed, excluded, or silenced (at least not primarily). Rather, they are inserted, often after suitable modification, within a "modern" (or perhaps "postmodern") social order. Hegemony is therefore oxymoronie it involves a splitting or doubling of opposition, which simultaneously wins and loses, gains entrance into the "halls of power" and is co-opted, "crosses over" into mainstream culture and is deprived of its critical content.