Teaching Arabs, Writing Self traces Evelyn Shakir’s evolution from a budding
student of canon English literature who was desperately trying to “become
white” to her epiphany that stories from her own working-class immigrant
neighborhood might be of equal worth. There, she found her unique niche by
becoming an author and scholar of Arab-American literature who helped gain
recognition for this literature as a genre, and who helped readers see Arab
Americans as people rather than stereotypes.
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences