TY - BOOK ID - 85720328 TI - Living in the shadows PY - 2020 SN - 9004440941 9004430814 9004430806 9789004440944 9789004430815 9789004430808 PB - Leiden Boston DB - UniCat KW - Blacks KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - Race identity KW - Black persons KW - Black people KW - Orelus, Pierre W. KW - Haiti KW - United States KW - Race relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85720328 AB - 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. ER -