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From pity to pride : growing up deaf in the Old South

Title: From pity to pride : growing up deaf in the Old South / Hannah Joyner.
Author: Joyner, Hannah.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, ©2004.

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Description

xii, 210 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"From Pity to Pride examines the experiences of a group of wealthy young men raised in the Old South who eventually would have ruled over this closely regimented world had they not been deaf. Instead, the promise of status was gone, replaced by pity. In this history, Hannah Joyner depicts the circumstances of these so-called victims of a terrible "misfortune." She delineates the ways in which the cultural rhetoric of paternalism and dependency in the South codified a stringent system of oppression and hierarchy that left little room for self-determination for Deaf southerners. From Pity to Pride reveals how some of these elite Deaf people rejected their family's and society's belief that being deaf was a permanent liability. As they came to adulthood, they joined together with other Deaf Americans, both southern and northern, to form communities of understanding, self-worth, and independence."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-205) and index.

Contents

Introduction: As a Prisoner Escaped, a Sick Man Cured -- Responses to Deafness -- The Peculiar Misfortune -- Forget That They Are Objects of Pity -- Glad Tidings of Release to the Prisoners of Silence -- Guide His Hand -- The Early Years of Deaf Education -- An Education of the Lips at the Expense of the Mind -- Think in Words -- With the Eyes to Hear and the Hands to Speak -- Self-Reliance and a Sense of Community -- The Dignity and Honor of Human Nature -- The Peculiar Institutions -- This Unnatural and Fratricidal Strife.

ISBN

1563682702
9781563682704

LCCN

2004043300

OCLC

ocm54543949
54543949
SCSB-1336923

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library