Forest Books: Carol Padden & Tom Humphries Inside Deaf Culture

In this absorbing book, the authors of DEAF IN AMERICA reveal historical events and forces that have shaped the ways that Deaf people define themselves today. It covers the establishment of nineteenth-century institutions, twentieth-century Deaf clubs where culture and art flourished, and Deaf people’s interaction with modern science and technology. From inside this once silenced community the book celebrates the experience of a minority culture, its common past, present debates, and promise for the future. The proud self-discovery and self-description reveals a flourishing culture with a richly complex language.

Hardcover 224 pages 2005