A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America

by Van Cleve, John Vickrey; Crouch, Barry A.

• ISBN13: 9780930323493
• ISBN10: 0930323491
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-04-01
• Publisher: Gallaudet Univ Pr

Summary

An exemplar of the history of disability and an innovative work that pushes it in a new direction. -- Journal of Social History A concise yet thorough and accessible history of the deaf community, its schools, and its long struggle to maintain a cohesive community...sometimes against formidable odds. it shows quite clearly, sometimes inspiringly so, that deafness is not a curse. Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the nineteenth century. Largely through schools for the deaf, deaf people began to develop a common language and a sense of community. A Place of Their Own brings the perspective of history to bear on the reality of deafness and provides fresh and important insight into the lives of deaf Americans.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xi
Prophets and Physicians	1	(9)
To Educate a Deaf Person	10	(11)
Braidwood and the Bollings	21	(8)
A Permanent School	29	(18)
The Residential School Experience	47	(13)
A Deaf State	60	(11)
A College	71	(16)
Organizing	87	(11)
Cultural Connections	98	(8)
The Assault on Sign Language	106	(22)
The Struggle to Save Signs	128	(14)
Marriage	142	(13)
Employing the Deaf Community	155	(14)
Epilogue	169	(6)
Notes	175	(17)
Bibliography	192	(9)
Index	201