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

This book explores 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.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Pierre W Orelus, Pierre W. Orelus
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.2020
• EAN: 9789004430808
• ISBN: 978-90-04-43080-8
• No. of pages: 124
• Weight: 200 g
• Series: Anti-Colonial Educational Pers
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system