The deaf history reader /
John Vickrey Van Cleve, editor.
- Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2007.
- viii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genesis of a community : the American deaf experience in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Hearing with the eye : the rise of deaf education in the United States / Origins of the American deaf-world : assimilating and differentiating societies and their relation to genetic patterning / Mary Ann Walworth Booth / A tale of two schools : the Indiana Institution and the Evansville Day School, 1879-1912 / The academic integration of deaf children : a historical perspective / Taking stock : Alexander Graham Bell and eugenics, 1883-1922 / Deaf autonomy and deaf dependence : the early years of the Pennsylvania Society for the Advancement of the Deaf / The Chicago Mission for the Deaf / Harry G. Lang -- Barry A. Crouch and Brian H. Greenwald -- Harlan Lane, Richard C. Pillard, and Mary French -- Jill Hendricks Porco -- Michael Reis -- John Vickrey Van Cleve -- Brian H. Greenwald -- Reginald Boyd and John Vickrey Van Cleve -- Kent R. Olney.
Van Cleve, who taught history at Gallaudet U. (Washington, DC), the only liberal arts college for the deaf and hard of hearing, introduces nine illustrated essays that challenge stereotypes by former students and others associated with the deaf community. They provide historical perspectives on deaf identity and education in the US, and call for broader scholarship on issues of importance to the deaf community. For example, one author weighs Alexander Graham Bell's mixed legacy as a eugenicist who nonetheless supported reproductive rights for the deaf.
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2007014161
Deaf people--History.--United States Deaf--Education--History.--United States