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RGM Midterm Cultural Hegemony theory Ans: developed by Antonio Gramsci, refers to domination and control achieved not through FORCE but rather through IDEOLOGICAL (cultural) means What is the Cult of True Womanhood? Ans: was an ideology developed during the early 19th century that tied a woman's virtue to piety, submissiveness, and domesticity Commodity Fetishism Ans: separates goods from context of production for new meanings to be attached Commodity Racism Ans: the use of stereotypical racial images and discourses to sell products. significance: "No pre-existing form of organized racism had ever before been able to reach so large and so differentiated a mass of the populace. The ideas of racism reached a vastly broader audience due to the use of pictures and objects instead of literature." James Baldwin Ans: broke new literary ground with the exploration of racial and social issues in his many works On Being White and Other Lies Dog Whistle Politics Ans: A type of political speech using code words that appear to mean one thing to the general population but have a different meaning for a targeted part of the audience cultural appropriatio