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Hugo Cerón-Anaya - Privilege at Play, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Privilege at Play

Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico

Av Hugo Cerón-Anaya

Del i serien Global and Comparative Ethnography

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While most research on inequality focuses on impoverished communities, it often ignores how powerful communities and elites monopolize resources at the top of the social hierarchy. In Privilege at Play, Hugo Ceron-Anaya offers an intersectional analysis of Mexican elites to examine the ways affluent groups perpetuate dynamics of domination and subordination. Using ethnographic research conducted inside three exclusive golf clubs and in-depth interviews with upper-middle and upper-class golfers, as well as working-class employees, Ceron-Anaya focuses on the class, racial, and gender dynamics that underpin privilege in contemporary Mexico. His detailed analysis of social life and the organization of physical space further considers how the legacy of imperialism continues to determine practices of exclusion and how social hierarchies are subtlety reproduced through distinctions such as fashion and humor, in addition to the traditional indicators of wealth and class. Adding another dimension to the complex nature of social exclusion, Privilege at Play shows how elite social relations and spaces allow for the resource hoarding and monopolization that helps create and maintain poverty.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-07-11
  • Mått: 239 x 160 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 471 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Global and Comparative Ethnography
  • Antal sidor: 232
  • Förlag: OUP USA
  • ISBN: 9780190931605
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sports
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Hugo Cerón-Anaya is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lehigh University. His work focuses on social hierarchies, inequalities, and privilege, examining how class, race, and gender inform the behavior and perceptions of affluent people. He is particularly interested in the wide array of ordinary and everyday practices that reproduce privilege.

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The central paradox of the book is the contrast between the invisibility of privilege to most city dwellers and the hypervisibility of privilege to those engaged in numerous struggles over who gets to play when and with whom inside. Drawing on 58 interviews and ethnographic observations of golf clubs, tournaments, shooting ranges, nd upper-class homes, this book makes a unique contribution to the study of the upper class by providing a nuanced example of the inequalities structuring the spaces and practices through which the privileged monopolize resources at the top of the social structure.

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