Pierre W Orelus

Living in the Shadows

A Biographical Account of Racial, Class, and Gender Inequities in the Americas

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2020
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 314g
• ISBN-13: 9789004430815
• ISBN-10: 9004430814
• Artikelnr.: 59957738

Autorenporträt

Pierre Wilbert Orelus is Associate Professor and Director of the Teaching Foundation program in the Educational Studies and Teacher Preparation Department in the Graduate School of Education at Fairfield University. His research involves intersectional examining of the various ways in which language, race, and gender intersect to influence people's lives, including student learning and teachers' teaching practices. His most recent books include Social Justice for the Oppressed: Educators and Intellectuals Speak out (Rowman and Littefield, 2017) and Race, Power, and the Obama Legacy (Routledge, 2015).