Assessing Black Deaf History: 1980s to the Present

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn B. Anderson ◽  
Lindsay M. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Black Deaf ◽  
Deaf History

scholarly journals “From White Deaf People’s Adversity to Black Deaf Gain”: A Proposal for a New Lens of Black Deaf Educational History

JCSCORE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-99
Author(s):  
Rezenet Tsegay Moges
Keyword(s):  
American Sign Language ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Deaf Community ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Black Deaf ◽  
Deaf History

This paper re-visits Bauman and Murray’s (2014) “Deaf Gain,” using the perspectives of Black Deaf history.  Due to the enforcement of the Oral policy in U.S. educational system during 1890s through 1960s, the language transmission of American Sign Language (ASL) for many generations of White Deaf people were fractured (Gannon, 1981).  During the segregation, approximately 81.25% of the Black Deaf schools maintained their signed education, which ironically provided better education than the White-only schools.  Consequently, the language variation of Black Deaf people in the South, called as “Black ASL” (McCaskill et al., 2011), flourished due to the historical adversity of White Deaf experience.  Thus, the sustainability of Black ASL empowered this ethnic group of American Deaf community, which I am re-framing to what I call “Black Deaf Gain” and presenting a different objective of the ontology of Black Deaf experience.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire L. Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Social Models ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Revolutionary Ideology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Deaf History

This introduction presents an overview of deaf history in the Soviet context, and establishes the central themes – marginality, community and identity – that frame the monograph. It considers how deafness was defined in USSR, looking particularly at the intersection of medical and social models, and the impact of revolutionary ideology on Soviet approaches to deafness. It also discusses how Soviet deaf history engages with, and complicates, existing understandings of marginal identity in the USSR, and adds a new, socialist perspective to the growing literature on deafness and deaf history in the global context.

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