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Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II by Susan Burch (Hardcover, 2002)

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During the nineteenth century, American schools for deaf education regarded sign language as the natural language of Deaf people, using it as the principal mode of instruction and communication. These schools inadvertently became the seedbeds of an emerging Deaf community and culture. But beginning in the 1880s, an oralist movement developed that sought to suppress sign language, removing Deaf teachers and requiring deaf people to learn speech and lip reading. Historians have all assumed that in the early decades of the twentieth century oralism triumphed overwhelmingly. Susan Burch shows us that everyone has it wrong; not only did Deaf students continue to use sign language in schools, hearing teachers relied on it as well. In Signs of Resistance, Susan Burch persuasively reinterprets early twentieth century Deaf history: using community sources such as Deaf newspapers, memoirs, films, and oral (sign language) interviews, Burch shows how the Deaf community mobilized to defend sign language and Deaf teachers, in the process facilitating the formation of collective Deaf consciousness, identity and political organization.

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Publisher
NY University Press
ISBN-13
9780814798911
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95612904

Product Key Features

Author
Susan Burch
Publication Name
Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Disability, History
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
230 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
229mm
Item Width
153mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Susan Burch
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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