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In society nature as divided people into divide group, the all-powerful hegemony the ones who have the greatest control, the mainstream the followers and the subculture the rebels. At last weakest and most segregate group, the marginalized. The system runs a delicate order of power, the hegemony are the commanders, the mainstream are the attackers, marginalized are ones being attacked. This is demonstrate in such works as The Other Family, by Himani Bannerji where a mother a tormented by the idea that her daughter was being attacked by hegemonic ideas of the perfect family. This struggle was also shown in the song Only a Pawn in Their Game by Bob Dylan, where one marginalized man was killed by a mainstream man living up to the hegemony. The hegemony marginalizes people by a ideal image of race, if on does not meet that image they are marginalized. They also marginalize people that have different ideas about society. Lastly they marginalize people so they have supremacy. These are the ideas the hegemony use to marginalize people, so they don’t interfere with their society. The hegemony implement ideas that allow them racially discriminate, oppress the people that question and reign superior against the rest of society, they implement these ideas through the mainstream. The hegemony with all it power would never do the dirty work, they hand over the work to the mainstream. With the intent of causing social marginalization they embed ideas into the minds of the mainstream. In doing so they are able to discriminate people by race that are not ideal in there idea of society. In much of history a hegemonic figure has determined who belongs and who doesn’t, the easiest way for them to point of difference is through race. Slavery is a definite example of this people where separate form others because they were different, the hegemony made the mainstream believed that African people or people of dark skin color were different. In works such as Bob Dylan

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