Cornel West Argues That the Work of Antonio Gramsci Is

Cornel West argues that the work of Antonio Gramsci is significant because Gramsci was the first European Marxist to seriously consider the "cultural life-worlds of the oppressed" in ways that treated culture as a serious, independent force in people's lives. How is Gramsci's work similar to that of Tomás Almaguer or Howard Winant and Michael Omi?

A) It treats race and class as the central features of society.
B) It doesn't assume that the economy determines every aspect of a society and its culture.
C) It sees race as a lived phenomenon.
D) It assumes that religion is more important than class.
E) It treats economic determinism as the answer to most questions about race.