Download or read book The Deaf History Reader written by John V. Van Cleve and published by Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Stu. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an assembly of essays that together offer a remarkably vivid depiction of the varied Deaf experience in America.
Download or read book Looking Back written by Renate Fischer and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reader on the History of Deaf Communities and their Sign Languages
Download or read book When the Mind Hears written by Harlan Lane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative statement on the deaf, their education, and their struggle against prejudice.
Download or read book Deaf World written by Lois Bragg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bragg (English, Gallaudet U.) has collected a selection of sources including political writings and personal memoirs covering topics such as eugenics, speech and lip-reading, the right to work, and the controversy over separation or integration. This book offers a glimpse into an often overlooked but significant minority in American culture, and one which many of the articles asserts is more like an internal colony than simply a minority group. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Deaf History Unveiled written by John V. Van Cleve and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1970s, when Deaf history as a formal discipline did not exist, the study of Deaf people, their culture and language, and how hearing societies treated them has exploded. Deaf History Unveiled: Interpretations from the New Scholarship presents the latest findings from the new scholars mining this previously neglected, rich field of inquiry. The sixteen essays featured in Deaf History Unveiled include the work of Harlan Lane, Renate Fischer, Margret A. Winzer, William McCagg, and twelve other noted historians who presented their research at the First International Conference on Deaf History in 1991.
Download or read book The Deaf Community in America written by Melvia M. Nomeland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work of history tracks the changes both in the education of and the social world of deaf people through the years. Topics include attitudes toward the deaf in Europe and America and the evolution of communication and language. Of particular interest is the way in which deafness has been increasingly humanized, rather than medicalized or pathologized, as it was in the past. Successful contributions to the deaf and non-deaf world by deaf individuals are also highlighted. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Download or read book The Rock History Reader written by Theo Cateforis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. This third edition includes new readings across the volume, with added material on the early origins of rock 'n' roll as well as coverage of recent developments, including the changing shape of the music industry in the twenty-first century. With numerous readings that delve into the often explosive issues surrounding censorship, copyright, race relations, feminism, youth subcultures, and the meaning of musical value, The Rock History Reader continues to appeal to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines. New to the third edition: Nine additional chapters from a broad range of perspectives Explorations of new media formations, industry developments, and the intersections of music and labor For the first time, a companion website providing users with playlists of music referenced in the book Featuring readings as loud, vibrant, and colorful as rock ‘n’ roll itself, The Rock History Reader is sure to leave readers informed, inspired, and perhaps even infuriated—but never bored.
Download or read book A Beginner s Introduction to Deaf History written by Raymond Lee and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deaf Heritage written by Jack R. Gannon and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gannon's book explores the distinctive visual culture of deaf Americans by documenting the origins of schools, programs, organizations, events and more.
Download or read book Deaf History and Culture in Spain written by Benjamin Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated for the first time into English, 44 Spanish documents dating from 1417 to the present featured in this collection trace the turbulent history of Deaf culture in Spain.
Download or read book The Disability Studies Reader written by Lennard J. Davis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disability Studies Reader collects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most important writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist and postmodernist perspective. Drawing together experts in cultural studies, literary criticism, sociology, biology, the visual arts, pedagogy and post-colonial studies, the collection provides a comprehensive approach to the issue of disability. Contributors include Erving Goffman, Susan Sontag, Michelle Fine and Susan Wendell.
Download or read book Arnold s history readers written by Matthew Thompson Yates and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Place of Their Own written by John V. Van Cleve and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using original sources, this unique book focuses on the Deaf community during the 19th 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.
Download or read book American History Reader s Theater eBook written by Margaret Allen and published by Creative Teaching Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American History Readers Theater provides hours of fluency practice that is grounded in the familiar format of American history and features characters students know and may even admire. The scripts and activities in this resource address standards in reading, speaking, and listening while providing a fun environment for everyone involved. When students practice their lines, they read and reread the same passages. Under your direction, they gradually add more expression, read more smoothly, and find any subtle meanings in the passages. American History Readers Theater also meets the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act through direct instruction in three of five key elements of reading instruction: reading fluency, text comprehension, and vocabulary development.
Download or read book Signs of Resistance written by Susan Burch and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author demonstrates that in 19th and 20th centuries and contrary to popular belief, the Deaf community defended its use of sign language as a distinctive form of communication, thus forming a collective Deaf consciousness, identity, and political organization.
Download or read book American Annals of the Deaf written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Sept. 1955 issue, includes lists of doctors' dissertations and masters' theses on the education of the deaf.
Download or read book Looking Back written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
