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Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege
The View from the Country Club
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2012
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Exclusive social clubs are traditionally an important site for the consolidation of upper-class power. Wealth, Whiteness, and the Matrix of Privilege shows that while the particulars of admission have changed, these clubs remain socially significant incubators. Having interviewed typically inaccessible members of exclusive clubs in the Northeast, Jessica Holden Sherwood reports and analyzes what they have to say about who is in, who is out, and why. The members talk frankly about their exclusiveness based on money and style, but they are quick to point out that ethnically-based exclusion is a thing of the past. Club members also address the status of their women members, which is at times distinctly second-class. The talk of country club members is shown to draw on elements in popular discourse. And even if it's not their intention, as club members exclude and account for their exclusion, they contribute to reproducing class, race, and gender inequalities.
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Edition
1/2012
Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3412-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3414-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
163
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Introduction No access
1: Business and Pleasure: The Social Context of Exclusive Clubs No access Pages 1 - 24
2: Denials and Justifications: Club Members Account for Exclusivity No access Pages 25 - 62
3: “Similar But Diverse:” Explaining Race and Ethnicity in the Clubs No access Pages 63 - 94
4: Gender Accounts, Or Why the Golf Course is the Dads’ Domain No access Pages 95 - 124
