The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a
distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices …

War Against the Weak is the gripping chronicle documenting how American corporate
philanthropies launched a national campaign of ethnic cleansing in the United States …

This article is concerned with ethical aspects of the relations between language minorities
using signed languages (called the Deaf-World) and the larger societies that engulf them …

This text provides a brief yet comprehensive overview of a number of non-Western
approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways …

RECENTLY I asked a colleague, a university professor I'll call Archibald, whether he thought
that Deaf people have a disability.“Of course they do,” he answered,“it's common sense.” I …

According to the authors, the aim of this book is to explore the cultural construction of deaf
people as ''disabled'', and the construction and marginalization of deaf people as a minority …

SAGE Reference is proud to announce the five-volume Encyclopedia of Disability. This
encyclopedia represents the first attempt to bring an authoritative reference resource to the …

In this probing exploration of what it means to be deaf, Brenda Brueggemann goes beyond
any simple notion of identity politics to explore the very nature of identity itself. Looking at a …

Given the threats posed to the signing Deaf community by the medical and educational
institutions of normalization, the Deaf community and Deaf Studies scholars find themselves …

In modern states, John Lie argues, ideas of race, ethnicity, and nationality can be subsumed
under the rubric of" peoplehood." He argues indeed, that the modern state has created the …