In our own hands
Subtitle: essays in deaf history, 1780-1970
By: Brian H. Greenwald and Joseph J. Murray, editors
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781563686603
Subjects: Deaf; History
Description: "This collection of new research examines the development of deaf people's autonomy and citizenship discourses as they sought access to full citizenship rights in local and national settings. Covering the period of 1780-1970, the essays in this collection explore deaf peoples' claims to autonomy in their personal, religious, social, and organizational lives and make the case that deaf Americans sought to engage, claim, and protect deaf autonomy and citizenship in the face of rising nativism and eugenic currents of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. These essays reveal how deaf people used their agency to engage in vigorous debates about issues that constantly tested the values of deaf people as Americans. The debates overlapped with social trends and spilled out into particular physical and social spaces such as clubs and churches, as well as within families. These previously unexplored areas in Deaf history intersect with important subthemes in American history, such as Southern history, religious history, and Western history. The contributors demonstrate that as deaf people pushed for their rights as citizens, they met with resistance from hearing people, and the results of their efforts were decidedly mixed. These works reinforce the Deaf community's longstanding desire to be part of the state--that is, to be first-class citizens. In Our Own Hands contributes to an increased understanding of the struggle for citizenship and expands our current understanding of race, gender, religion, and other trends in Deaf history"--

"The essays in this collection explore deaf peoples' claims to autonomy in their personal, religious, social, and organizational lives and reveal how these debates overlapped with social trends and spilled out into social spaces"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why give him a sign which hearing people do not understand...? Public discourses about deafness, 1780-1914 / Anja Werner; title: "Enlightened selfishness": Gallaudet college and deaf citizenship in the United States, 1864-1904 / Joseph J. Murray; title: CItizenship and education: The case of the black deaf community / Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Joseph Hill; title: From deaf autonomy to parent autonomy in the Chicago public day schools, 1874-1920 / Motoko Kimura; title: Are we not as much citizens as anybody? Alice Taylor Terry and deaf citizenship in the early twentieth century / Kati Morton Mitchell; title: Unchurched, unchampioned, and undone: The St. Ann's church controversy, 1894-1897 / Jannelle Legg; title: In pursuit of citizenship: Campaigns against peddling in deaf America, 1880s-1950s / Octavian Robinson; title: Revisiting Memoir upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race: Alexander Graham Bell and deaf autonomy / Brian H. Greewald; title: Compromising for agency: The role of the NAD during the American eugenics movement, 1880-1940 / Melissa Malzkuhn; title: Normalization and abnormal genes: Hereditary deafness research at the Clarke School for the Deaf, 1930-1950 / Marion Andrea Schmidt; title: The "Breakaways": Deaf citizens' groups in Australia in the 1920s and 1930s / Breda Carty; title: Divine and secular: Reverend Robert Capers Fletcher and the Southern Deaf community, 1931-1972 / Jean Lindquist Bergey.