Living in the shadows : : a biographical account of racial, class, and gender inequities in the Americas / / by Pierre W. Orelus.

• Superior document: Anti-colonial educational perspectives for transformative change ; Volume 9
• VerfasserIn: Orelus, Pierre W.,
• 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.

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...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Overview of the Book
• 2 Conclusion
• 1 Home and Early Literacy Memories
• 1 Recollect My Childhood and Adolescence Memories
• 2 Early Literacy
• 3 Attending School in the Countryside
• 4 Gender Inequities
• 2 Questioning My Black Male and Heterosexual Privileges
• 1 Teenage and Young Adult Life Remembrances
• 2 Critical Reflection
• 3 Growing up Poor, Black, and Being [Mis]educated
• 1 My Mis-Education
• 2 Conclusion
• 4 Belonging Neither Here nor There
• 1 I Am My Identities
• 2 Recollecting Precious Memories
• 3 Coping with Bitter and Sweet Feelings Living in the United States
• 4 Awareness as Liberation
• 5 Conclusion
• 5 To Be Non-Whites in America Is to Be in Danger
• 1 How Does Feel Like a Burden in a Self-proclaimed Democratic Country Like the United States?
• 2 Experiencing Inequities in the Main Land
• 6 Succeeding as Black in an Uneven Western World
• 1 Challenges
• 2 Confronting Linguistic and Racial Discrimination
• 3 Teaching Minority Students
• 4 Lessons Learned from My Personal Journey
• 7 What It Means Being Black in the Ivy Halls of WhiteAmerica
• 1 Longing for a Paradigm Shift: Will That Ever Occur?
• 2 Teaching While Black: Confronting Whiteness in the Classroom
• 3 The Inner Fear of Losing Myself
• 4 Conclusion
• 8 The Cost of Being Black and Brown Laboring in Predominantly White Institutions
• 1 Going through the Hoops of the Tenure and Promotion Process
• 2 Post-Tenure and Promotion Critical Self-Reflection
• 3 Looking Forward
• References.