Living in the Shadows

A Biographical Account of Racial, Class, and Gender Inequities in the Americas
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43080-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 106 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 200 g

Reihe: Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

W Orelus, Pierre

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Affektive, soziale und ethische Ziele in der Erziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).