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Tables of Contents for Deaf World
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
In surdam memoriam
xi
Karl Jaekel
Contributors
xxix
Prologue: Autobiography of Laurent Clerc
1
10
Laurent Clerc
Part I ``Scattered as we are and lost among the hearing'': Life in the Hearing World
11
70
On Planning a Deaf-Mute Commonwealth
13
14
J. J. Flournoy
Edmund Booth
Coming to California
27
6
Albert Ballin
What a Deaf Jewish Leader Expects of a Rabbi
33
5
Frederick C. Schreiber
How to Write Like a Hearing Reporter
38
2
Tom Willard
CBS Hurt Deaf Children with ``Caitlin's Story,''
40
3
Jack Levesque
Who Speaks for the Deaf Community? Not Who You Would Think!
43
5
Elizabeth L. Broecker
My Life on Paper
48
3
Shanny Mow
Away from Invisibility, Toward Invincibility: Issues with Deaf Theatre Artists in America
51
17
Willy Conley
This Child Is Mine: Deaf Parents and Their Adopted Deaf Children
68
13
Barbara J. White
Part II ``The noblest gift God has given to deaf people'': American Sign Language and Its Literature
81
82
The Preservation of the Sign Language
83
3
George W. Veditz
Carol A. Padden
Eric Malzkuhn
From Student to Professional: A Personal Chronicle of Sign Language
86
11
Gilbert Eastman
Black Signs: Whatever Happened to the Sign for ``Cornbread''?
97
2
Ernest Hairston
Linwood Smith
Reflections of American Deaf Culture in Deaf Humor
99
5
Mj Bienvenu
Folk Explanation in Language Survival
104
12
Carol A. Padden
Let's Return ASL to Deaf Ownership
116
2
Jack Levesque
What Happens When Languages Come in Contact
118
5
Ceil Lucas
Clayton Valli
I've Had Enough of the I-Love-You Sign, Thanks
123
1
Tom Willard
Traditions: Hispanic, American, Deaf Culture: Which Takes Precedence in Trilingual Interpreter Training?
124
5
Ralph Sedano
Rathskellar: Some Oral-Traditional and Not-So-Traditional Characteristics of ASL Literature
129
18
Cynthia Lohr Peters
In Search of the Perfect Sign-Language Script: Insights into the Diverse Writing Styles of Deaf Playwrights
147
16
Willy Conley
Part III ``The medicine that swallowed the patient'': Deaf Education
163
72
The Associative Feature in the Education of the Deaf
165
10
George Wing
The Attitude of the Adult Deaf towards Pure Oralism
175
9
Amos G. Draper
The Fable of the Ass Who Was Taught to Whinny
184
2
Warren Milton Smaltz
The Graduate
186
2
Albert Ballin
The Deaf Adult's Point of View
188
5
Frederick C. Schreiber
Black Deaf Students
193
6
Ernest Hairston
Linwood Smith
Who's Itching to Get into Mainstreaming?
199
4
Ben Bahan
The Real Meaning of ``Hearing Impaired''
203
2
Angela Stratiy
Do We Continue This Tragedy?
205
2
Jack Levesque
A Taboo Exposed: Using ASL in the Classroom
207
4
Clayton Valli
Deaf-centric Teaching: A Case Study in ASL-English Bilingualism
211
24
Cynthia Neese Bailes
Part IV ``Impressed with the value of character'': The Deaf Ethic
235
68
Vagrancy among Deaf-Mutes
237
2
H. M. Chamberlayne
Miss Martineau and Deaf-Mutes
239
2
Edmund Booth
The habit of being prompt ...
241
2
Unsigned (1902)
Finding Men for Jobs
243
8
B. M. Schowe
The Development of Postwar Employment
251
6
B. M. Schowe
A Review of the Little Paper Family for 1944-45
257
12
Thomas A. Ulmer
Place of the Adult Deaf in Society
269
4
Toivo Lindholm
What Exactly Am I Supposed to Overcome?
273
2
Tom Willard
Thoughts on the Effects of Provisions for the Deaf
275
9
David J. Kurs
Benjamin J. Bahan
'Til All Barriers Crumble and Fall: Agatha Tiegel's Presentation Day Speech in April 1893
284
12
Katherine Jankowski
Dummy Hoy: ``Play Ball!''
296
7
James A. Nickerson
Part V ``Strengthening the spirit of clannishness'': The Deaf Community
303
114
Racism within the Deaf Community
305
4
Glenn B. Anderson
Frank G. Bowe
Glad Publishes Position Paper on Cochlear Implants
309
7
Carol Padden
Reflections on The Deaf Way
316
2
Bob Alcorn
Can Deaf People Survive ``deafness''?
318
7
Mj Bienvenu
Cochlear Implants vs. Deaf Culture?
325
8
Kathryn Woodcock
Into Their Own Hands: The Deaf President Now Protest and Its Consequences
333
15
Sharon N. Barnartt
John B. Christiansen
Of Deaf-Mutes, the Strange, and the Modern Deaf Self
348
17
Tom Humphries
The Hearing Agenda II: Eradicating the Deaf-World
365
15
Harlan Lane
Robert Hoffmeister
Ben Bahan
Deaf Women Now: Establishing Our Niche
380
10
Martha A. Sheridan
Contemporary Native Deaf Experience: Overdue Smoke Rising
390
16
Valerie L. Dively
Cochlear Implants and Deaf Identity
406
7
A. Philip Aiello
Myrna Aiello
Signing Off
413
4
Bruce A. White
Further Reading
417
6
Arlene Blumenthal Kelly
Permissions
423
4
Index
427