Living in the shadows. A biographical account of racial, class, and gender inequities in the Americas.

Autor/in	Orelus, Pierre W.
Titel	Living in the shadows. A biographical account of racial, class, and gender inequities in the Americas.
Quelle	Lieden: Brill \| Sense (2020), XVIII, 105 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Anti-colonial educational perspectives for transformative change. 9
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISSN	2542-9280
ISBN	9789004430808; 9789004430815; 9789004440944 (E-Book)
Schlagwörter	Autobiografie; Haiti; USA; Orelus, Pierre W; Educators; Biography; Biografie; Poor children; Education; Sexually abused children; Immigrants; United States; Linguistic minorities; Racism in education; Black people; Race identity; Bildungsgeschichte + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educator; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Biographies; Biografie; Biographie; Poverty; Child; Children; Armut; Kind; Kinder; Bildung; Erziehung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; USA; Language minorities; Sprachminderheit; Sprachliche Minderheit; Racism; Education; Rassismus; Race; Identity; Abstammung; Identität
Abstract	Introduction -- Home and early literacy memories -- Questioning my Black male and heterosexual privileges -- Growing up poor, Black and being [mis]educated -- Belonging neither here nor there -- To be non-whites in America is to be in danger -- Succeeding as Black in an uneven western world -- What it means being Black in the ivy halls of white America -- The cost of being Black and Brown laboring in predominantly white institutions. "Using auto-ethnography as a methodological framework, this book captures two diametrical poles of the author's experiences growing up poor and being educated in a colonial school system in a developing country and currently working as a university professor in the United States. The author begins by recollecting his mixed childhood and adolescence experiences, including being subjected to abject poverty, escaping a sexual predator as a teenager, witnessing class, gender, and sexual inequities, while at the same time being supported by family, neighbours, and friends in his community. Next, the author talks about the social class privileges that he has enjoyed as a result of becoming a university professor while juxtaposing such privileges to micro-aggression, systemic racism, xenophobia, linguicism, and elitism that he has been facing in society, including in the Ivy Halls of White America"--Provided by publisher.
Erfasst von	Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Update	2022/3/09