Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico (Global and Comparative Ethnography)

Cerón-Anaya, Hugo

ISBN 10: 0190931612 / ISBN 13: 9780190931612

Published by Oxford University Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico (Global and Comparative Ethnography)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190931612
• ISBN 13: 9780190931612
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.