Cultural hegemony is “the domination of a culturally diverse society by the ruling class, who manipulate the culture of that society”.
Marxism states that through the “free” market one is free to sell one’s work/labor but this is inapplicable to black bodies who are “slaves” and obviously slaves are unable to own themselves therefore Gramsci's argument erases black bodies and places them outside of the free market. This idea that because of white supremacy black individuals are not free are not capable of “selling” their labor. Marxism and class oriented theories reduce black existence to the working class when in reality this doesn’t fully encapsulate the experience the black people experience under white supremacist capitalist society. This falls in line with Blauner and his theory of internal colonialism the black community is subjugated by the US which is a (neo)colonialist power and within the internal society blacks are subjugated