Living in the shadows : : a biographical account of racial, class, and gender inequities in the Americas / / by Pierre W. Orelus.
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 begi...
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| Superior document: | Anti-colonial educational perspectives for transformative change ; Volume 9 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anti-colonial educational perspectives for transformative change ;
Volume 9. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9004440941 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Pierre W. Orelus. |