Deaf history unveiled : interpretations from the new scholarship / John Vickrey Van Cleve, editor.

Papers based on the First International Conference on Deaf History at Galluadet University, 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Pedro Ponce de Leon: Myth and Reality -- 2. Abbe de l'Epee and the Living Dictionary -- 3. The Deaf-Mute Banquets and the Birth of the Deaf Movement -- 4. Republicanism, Deaf Identity and the Career of Henri Gaillard in Late-Nineteenth-Century France -- 5. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet: Benevolent Paternalism and the Origins of the American Asylum -- 6. Vocational Education in the Deaf American and African-American Communities -- 7. "Savages and Deaf-Mutes": Evolutionary Theory and the Campaign Against Sign Language in the Nineteenth Century -- 8. Deaf History: A Suppressed Part of General History -- 9. Education, Urbanization, and the Deaf Community: A Case Study of Toronto, 1870-1900 -- 10. Exclusion and Integration: The Case of the Sisters of Providence of Quebec -- 11. The Silent Worker Newspaper and the Building of a Deaf Community 1890-1929 -- 12. Student Life at the Indiana School for the Deaf During the Depression Years -- 13. Founders of Deaf Education in Russia -- 14. The Education of Deaf People in Italy and the Use of Italian Sign Language -- 15. Some Problems in the History of Deaf Hungarians -- 16. Cochlear Implants: Their Cultural and Historical Meaning -- Contributors -- Index.

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.

Deaf History Unveiled travels from a monastery, in 16th-century Spain to banquets planned by and for Deaf people in 19th-century France, from the presses of a once-activist school newspaper in pre-Depression New Jersey to the founders & deaf education in Russia to the present. Readers will discover the new themes driving Deaf history, including a telling comparison of the similarities in experience among Deaf people and African Americans, both minorities with identifying characteristics that cannot be hidden to thwart bias. The paternalism of hearing societies resounds in separate studies of deaf education and the opportunities afforded deaf people in the United States, Italy, and Hungary. Adding to its intrigue, the new research in this outstanding volume provides evidence for the previously uncredited self-determination of Deaf people in establishing education, employment, and social structures common through-out the Northern hemisphere.

Historians, teachers, and students alike will prize Deaf History Unveiled as a singular collection of insights that will change historical perspectives on the Deaf experience worldwide.

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