The Importance of Identity in the Classroom

The thread that I'm hearing throughout all four of these areas is identity and it has so much to do with, you know, obviously all of our non-Arab students just being aware of where so many of these important things came from. The saddest part of it is that so much of the contributions have been appropriated and stolen, right? And what they've been replaced with is this narrative of violence. No matter how many generations of Arabs are here, you are by research. Bank says a perpetual foreigner. So you'll never belong here. It's going to take all of us have been socialized by the same system educators have as an Arab. Those are things that I have to