Contributor(s): Editor: Lois Bragg To many who hear, the Deaf world is as foreign as a country never visited. 1336 - 03/15/2001. Review citations Booklist - pg.
Comprising a judicious mix of published pieces and original essays solicited specifically for this volume, Deaf World marks a major contribution.
And for the hearing, it serves as an unprecedented guide to a world and a culture so often overlooked.
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.
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.
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. social integration.
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.
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.
Deaf World thus concerns itself less with the perspectives of the hearing and more with what Deaf people themselves think and do.
Contributor(s): Editor: Lois Bragg To many who hear, the Deaf world is as foreign as a country never visited
