The Transnational "Good Life: Ecuadorian Social Clubs as Spaces of Resistance

by Linda Jean Hall

The Transnational "Good Life" is an ethnographic study of the founding and maintenance of social organizations by emigrants from Ecuador in politically contested U.S. public spaces. By following in the footsteps of W. E. B. Du Bois who coined the term "double consciousness," this book posits that racialization, an inherent characteristic of Global Apartheid, uniquely influenced the construction of complex Ecuadorian migrant identities in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469662507
• ISBN13: 9781469662503
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Unc Institute for the Study of the Americas
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.5"