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The Deaf Experience

Classics in Language and Education

Edited by Harlan Lane
Translated by Franklin Philip
Categories: Literature / Poetry / Literary Studies, Deaf Communities and Cultures, Deaf History
Series: Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies

The seminal study of the antecedents of Deaf culture is now back in print. Edited by renowned scholar Harlan Lane, The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education presents a selection of the earliest ...

Deaf Way II: An International Celebration

An International Celebration

First Edition

Edited by Harvey Goodstein & Laura Brown
Foreword by I. King Jordan
Categories: Deaf Communities and Cultures, Art and Performance, Deaf Studies

In July 2002, more than 9,700 Deaf people from around the world met in Washington, D.C., to share their arts, research, and languages at Deaf Way II, a joyous festival of diverse Deaf cultures. Deaf Way ...

From Pity to Pride

Growing Up Deaf in the Old South

First Edition

By Hannah Joyner
Categories: Deaf History, Deaf Studies, Deaf Communities and Cultures

The antebellum South’s economic dependence on slavery engendered a rigid social order in which a small number of privileged white men dominated African Americans, poor whites, women, and many people ...

At Home Among Strangers

Exploring the Deaf Community in the United States

By Jerome D. Schein
Categories: Deaf Communities and Cultures

At Home Among Strangers presents an engrossing portrait of the Deaf community as a complex, nationwide social network that offers unique kinship to deaf people across the country. Schein depicts in striking ...

Deaf History Unveiled

Interpretations from the New Scholarship

Edited by John Vickrey Van Cleve
Categories: Deaf History, Deaf Communities and Cultures

The Politics of Deafness

By Owen Wrigley
Categories: Deaf Studies, Deaf Communities and Cultures

The Politics of Deafness embarks upon a post-modern examination of the search for identity in deafness and its relationship to the prevalent hearing culture that has marginalized Deaf people. Author ...

The Deaf Way

Perspectives from the International Conference on Deaf Culture

First Edition

Edited by Carol J. Erting, Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce C. Snider
Categories: Deaf Communities and Cultures, Deaf Studies

The Deaf Way documents the vast scholarly and artistic endeavors that took place in July 1989 when more than 6,000 deaf people from around the world met at Gallaudet University to celebrate Deaf culture. ...

Dancing Without Music

Deafness in America

By Beryl Lieff Benderly
Categories: Deaf Communities and Cultures, Deaf History, Deaf Studies

The Other Side of Silence

Sign Language and the Deaf Community in America

First Edition

By Arden Neisser
Categories: Deaf Communities and Cultures, Deaf Studies

Arden Neisser’s classic book on American Sign Language (ASL) and the Deaf community is again available, with a new prologue. The Other Side of Silence explores the Deaf community through telling interviews ...

A Deaf Adult Speaks Out

Third Edition

By Leo Jacobs
Categories: Biography / Memoir, Deaf Communities and Cultures

Leo Jacobs has written a unique and personal account of what it is like to be deaf in a hearing world. He speaks out on such issues as mainstreaming and its effect on deaf children and the Deaf community, ...