American deaf culture : an anthology

Summary: "This anthology features deaf and hearing authors who offer their experience and perspectives on cultural values, ASL, social interaction in the Deaf community, education, folklore, and other topics."--Publisher's website.

Record details

ISBN: 0932130089
ISBN: 9780932130082
ISBN: 0932130097
ISBN: 9780932130099
Physical Description: print
v, 202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: Silver Spring, Md. : Linstok Press, ©1989.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202).

Formatted Contents Note:

The deaf community and the culture of deaf people / Carol Padden -- A night of living terror / Ben Bahan -- Inside the deaf community / Barbara Kannapell -- Notes from a 'seeing' person / Ben Bahan -- How do you dance without music? / Shanny Mow -- It's our world too! / Ben Bahan -- Dimensions of difference : ASL and English based cultures / William C. Stokoe -- Our future, ourselves / Ben Bahan-- Funny in deaf-not in hearing / Susan D. Rutherford -- What if ... Alexander Graham Bell had gotten his way? / Ben Bahan -- Train-gone-sorry : The etiquette of social conversations in American sign language / Stephanie Hall -- The deaf child as a linguistic minority / Veda R. Charrow, Ronnie B. Wilbur -- Total communication, a total farce / Ben Bahan -- A bilingual, bicultural approach to teaching English (How two hearies and a deafie got together to teach English) / Tom Humphries, Bette Martin, Terry Coye -- STUCK in school : Meaning and culture in a deaf education classroom / Sherman Wilcox -- How you gonna get to heaven if you can't talk with Jesus? The educational establishment vs. the deaf community / James Woodward -- Who's itching to get into mainstreaming? / Ben Bahan -- Breaking through the culture of silence / Sherman Wilcox -- The war is not over /Ben Bahan.