Archer, Louise;
Rodriguez, Paulina;
(2022)
Reproducing Privilege Through Whiteness and Beauty: An Intersectional Analysis of Elite Chilean University Students’ Practices.
British Journal of Sociology of Education
10.1080/01425692.2022.2060186.
(In press).
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Abstract
This paper undertakes an intersectional analysis of the ways in which socio-economically elite higher education students in Chile reproduce privilege through everyday practices of whiteness and beauty. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews and observations with 20 privileged students at an elite Chilean university, the paper identifies and discusses the students’ ambiguous racial identifications and the racialized, classed and gendered ways in which privilege was enacted through practices of ‘beauty’ as a ‘natural’ embodied distinction. We discuss how ideals and practices of beauty were a ‘double edged sword’ for elite female students, conferring advantage while also denying academic authenticity. We argue that Chilean elite performances of whiteness offer an added layer of complexity to existing literature, problematising and decentring performances of whiteness from white bodies. We conclude by suggesting that an intersectional lens offers a useful way to understand and address the re/production of inequalities in Chilean elite universities.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reproducing Privilege Through Whiteness and Beauty: An Intersectional Analysis of Elite Chilean University Students’ Practices |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01425692.2022.2060186 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2022.2060186 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10145852 |
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