Deaf World : A Historical Reader and Primary Sourcebook

by Bragg, Lois

• ISBN13: 9780814798539
• ISBN10: 0814798535
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

To many who hear, the deaf world is as foreign as a country never visited.Deaf Worldthus concerns itself less with the perspectives of the hearing and more with what Deaf people themselves think and do. Editor Lois Bragg asserts that English is for many signing people a second, infrequently used language and that Deaf culture is the socially transmitted pattern of behavior, values, beliefs, and expression of those who use American Sign Language. She has assembled an astonishing array of historical sources, political writings, and personal memoirs, from classic 19th-century manifestos to contemporary policy papers, on everything from eugenics to speech and lipreading, the right to work and marry, and the never-ending controversy over separation vs. social integration. At the heart of many of the selections lies the belief that Deaf Americans have long constituted an internal colony of sorts in the United States.While not attempting to speak for Deaf people en masse, this ambitious platform anthology places the Deaf on center stage, offering them an opportunity to represent the world--theirs as well as the hearing world--from a Deaf perspective. For Deaf readers, the book will be welcomed as a gift, both a companion to be savored and, as often, an opponent to be engaged and debated. And for the hearing, it serves as an unprecedented guide to a world and a culture so often overlooked.Comprising a judicious mix of published pieces and original essays solicited specifically for this volume,Deaf Worldmarks a major contribution.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
In surdam memoriam	xi
Karl Jaekel
Contributors	xxix
Prologue: Autobiography of Laurent Clerc	1	(10)
Laurent Clerc
Part I ``Scattered as we are and lost among the hearing'': Life in the Hearing World	11	(70)
On Planning a Deaf-Mute Commonwealth	13	(14)
J. J. Flournoy
Edmund Booth
Coming to California	27	(6)
Albert Ballin
What a Deaf Jewish Leader Expects of a Rabbi	33	(5)
Frederick C. Schreiber
How to Write Like a Hearing Reporter	38	(2)
Tom Willard
CBS Hurt Deaf Children with ``Caitlin's Story,''	40	(3)
Jack Levesque
Who Speaks for the Deaf Community? Not Who You Would Think!	43	(5)
Elizabeth L. Broecker
My Life on Paper	48	(3)
Shanny Mow
Away from Invisibility, Toward Invincibility: Issues with Deaf Theatre Artists in America	51	(17)
Willy Conley
This Child Is Mine: Deaf Parents and Their Adopted Deaf Children	68	(13)
Barbara J. White
Part II ``The noblest gift God has given to deaf people'': American Sign Language and Its Literature	81	(82)
The Preservation of the Sign Language	83	(3)
George W. Veditz
Carol A. Padden
Eric Malzkuhn
From Student to Professional: A Personal Chronicle of Sign Language	86	(11)
Gilbert Eastman
Black Signs: Whatever Happened to the Sign for ``Cornbread''?	97	(2)
Ernest Hairston
Linwood Smith
Reflections of American Deaf Culture in Deaf Humor	99	(5)
Mj Bienvenu
Folk Explanation in Language Survival	104	(12)
Carol A. Padden
Let's Return ASL to Deaf Ownership	116	(2)
Jack Levesque
What Happens When Languages Come in Contact	118	(5)
Ceil Lucas
Clayton Valli
I've Had Enough of the I-Love-You Sign, Thanks	123	(1)
Tom Willard
Traditions: Hispanic, American, Deaf Culture: Which Takes Precedence in Trilingual Interpreter Training?	124	(5)
Ralph Sedano
Rathskellar: Some Oral-Traditional and Not-So-Traditional Characteristics of ASL Literature	129	(18)
Cynthia Lohr Peters
In Search of the Perfect Sign-Language Script: Insights into the Diverse Writing Styles of Deaf Playwrights	147	(16)
Willy Conley
Part III ``The medicine that swallowed the patient'': Deaf Education	163	(72)
The Associative Feature in the Education of the Deaf	165	(10)
George Wing
The Attitude of the Adult Deaf towards Pure Oralism	175	(9)
Amos G. Draper
The Fable of the Ass Who Was Taught to Whinny	184	(2)
Warren Milton Smaltz
The Graduate	186	(2)
Albert Ballin
The Deaf Adult's Point of View	188	(5)
Frederick C. Schreiber
Black Deaf Students	193	(6)
Ernest Hairston
Linwood Smith
Who's Itching to Get into Mainstreaming?	199	(4)
Ben Bahan
The Real Meaning of ``Hearing Impaired''	203	(2)
Angela Stratiy
Do We Continue This Tragedy?	205	(2)
Jack Levesque
A Taboo Exposed: Using ASL in the Classroom	207	(4)
Clayton Valli
Deaf-centric Teaching: A Case Study in ASL-English Bilingualism	211	(24)
Cynthia Neese Bailes
Part IV ``Impressed with the value of character'': The Deaf Ethic	235	(68)
Vagrancy among Deaf-Mutes	237	(2)
H. M. Chamberlayne
Miss Martineau and Deaf-Mutes	239	(2)
Edmund Booth
The habit of being prompt ...	241	(2)
Unsigned (1902)
Finding Men for Jobs	243	(8)
B. M. Schowe
The Development of Postwar Employment	251	(6)
B. M. Schowe
A Review of the Little Paper Family for 1944-45	257	(12)
Thomas A. Ulmer
Place of the Adult Deaf in Society	269	(4)
Toivo Lindholm
What Exactly Am I Supposed to Overcome?	273	(2)
Tom Willard
Thoughts on the Effects of Provisions for the Deaf	275	(9)
David J. Kurs
Benjamin J. Bahan
'Til All Barriers Crumble and Fall: Agatha Tiegel's Presentation Day Speech in April 1893	284	(12)
Katherine Jankowski
Dummy Hoy: ``Play Ball!''	296	(7)
James A. Nickerson
Part V ``Strengthening the spirit of clannishness'': The Deaf Community	303	(114)
Racism within the Deaf Community	305	(4)
Glenn B. Anderson
Frank G. Bowe
Glad Publishes Position Paper on Cochlear Implants	309	(7)
Carol Padden
Reflections on The Deaf Way	316	(2)
Bob Alcorn
Can Deaf People Survive ``deafness''?	318	(7)
Mj Bienvenu
Cochlear Implants vs. Deaf Culture?	325	(8)
Kathryn Woodcock
Into Their Own Hands: The Deaf President Now Protest and Its Consequences	333	(15)
Sharon N. Barnartt
John B. Christiansen
Of Deaf-Mutes, the Strange, and the Modern Deaf Self	348	(17)
Tom Humphries
The Hearing Agenda II: Eradicating the Deaf-World	365	(15)
Harlan Lane
Robert Hoffmeister
Ben Bahan
Deaf Women Now: Establishing Our Niche	380	(10)
Martha A. Sheridan
Contemporary Native Deaf Experience: Overdue Smoke Rising	390	(16)
Valerie L. Dively
Cochlear Implants and Deaf Identity	406	(7)
A. Philip Aiello
Myrna Aiello
Signing Off	413	(4)
Bruce A. White
Further Reading	417	(6)
Arlene Blumenthal Kelly
Permissions	423	(4)
Index	427