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1 online resource (xviii, 105 pages). |
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nat Americans |
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eth Haitian Americans |
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text file |
| Series |
Anti-colonial educational perspectives for transformative change,
2542-9280 ;
volume 9
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Anti-colonial educational perspectives for transformative change ; v. 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Home and early literacy memories -- Questioning my Black male and heterosexual privileges -- Growing up poor and Black and succeeding in an uneven world -- Belonging neither here nor there -- To be non-white in America is to be in danger -- What it means being Black in the ivy halls of white America -- The cost of being Black and Brown laboring in predominantly white institutions. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Orelus, Pierre W.
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Educators -- Haiti -- Biography.
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Educators. |
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Haiti. |
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Biographies.
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Poor children -- Education -- Haiti.
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Poor children -- Education. |
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Poor children. |
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Sexually abused children.
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Sexually abused children. |
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Immigrants -- United States.
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Immigrants. |
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United States. |
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Linguistic minorities -- Education -- United States.
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Linguistic minorities -- Education. |
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Racism in education -- United States.
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Racism in education. |
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Black people -- Race identity -- United States.
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Black people -- Race identity. |
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Haiti -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiography.
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Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Orelus, Pierre W. Living in the shadows. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Sense, 2020 9789004430808 (DLC) 2020035809 (OCoLC)1196820607 |
| ISBN |
9789004440944 (electronic book) |
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9004440941 (electronic book) |
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9789004430815 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9004430814 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9789004430808 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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9004430806 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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