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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Erscheint auch als Ceron-Anaya, Hugo, 1975- author. Game of privilege. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] Online-Ausgabe (DLC) 2019013339 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hugo Cerón-Anaya |
ISBN: | 9780190931605 0190931604 9780190931612 0190931612 |
OCLC Number: | 1162840044 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sports. |
Description: | xii, 217 Seiten Illustrationen |
Contents: | IntroductionChapter 1: The History of Golf in MexicoChapter 2: Invisibility and Hyper-VisibilityChapter 3: Inside the CommunityChapter 4: An Ostensibly Raceless NationChapter 5: The Racialization of SpaceChapter 6: Gender on the Golf CourseConclusionAppendix: An Un/ethical Approach |
Series Title: | Global and comparative ethnography |
Responsibility: | Hugo Cerón-Anaya |
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Hugo Ceron-Anaya makes an important contribution to studies of upper class sociability and leisure, using his well-informed ethnography to illuminate the reproduction of class, gender, and racial inequalities in the golf clubs of Mexico City. Inspired by Bourdieu and using a rich ethnography, he shows that the golf clubs * built by globalising Mexican economic capital * This fascinating, insightful, and compelling book on the Mexican ruling class at play starts with the invisibility of elite golf clubs to the ordinary people who walk by them every day and then proceeds through revealing interviews and astute observations to show the importance of social clubs in creating the shared world view and social cohesion that helps the wealthy golfers to cement their grip on power." -G. William Domhoff, author of TheCorporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century: How They Won, Why Labor and Liberals Lost Opening the gates to the hidden world of golf clubs in Mexico, Hugo Ceron-Anaya expands our understanding of elites and inequality by shedding light on the hidden interrelationship of race, class, and gender in privileged spaces." -Shamus Khan, Chair and Professor of Sociology, Columbia University I found Privilege at Play an enjoyable and informative read. ..I closed this book a satisfied and better educated general reader * Will Trinkwon, Golfshake * Read more...


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- Golf -- Social aspects -- Mexico.
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