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Acculturation
Afro American
American Dream
Author_Linda Jean Hall
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Cultural Citizenship
Double Consciousness
Ecuador
Ecuadorian immigrant
Empowerment
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Good Life
Identity Construction
Intersectionality
LatinX
Los Angeles
Miami
New York City
Social Capital
Social Club
Social Organization
Solidarity
Product details
- ISBN 9781469662503
- Weight: 167g
- Dimensions: 141 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2020
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 U.S. The thematic focus is on the intersection of the empowerment produced in the social clubs with the desire of individual members to acquire the American Dream and the good life. This is an "anthropology of the good," which brings to the forefront the lived experiences of immigrants claiming a high level of pre-migratory preparedness and success in the U.S. The Transnational "Good Life" is an analysis of evolving relationships within and outside the loosely connected network of Ecuadorian social clubs in the unique cultural milieus of Los Angeles, Miami, and New York City.
Linda Jean Hall is an activist and a cultural anthropologist who received her doctorate from the University of California, Riverside. As a lecturer at UCLA, UC Riverside, and Cal Poly, Hall teaches courses in anthropology and global studies. She is the author of a memoir, Three Rivers Crossed.
