Preface
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Introduction: Listening to Deaf Studies
1(34)
H-Dirksen L. Bauman
Part I. Framing Deaf Studies
Talking Culture and Culture Talking
35(7)
Tom Humphries
Colonialism and Resistance: A Brief History of Deafhood
42(18)
Paddy Ladd
The Deaf Convert Culture and Its Lessons for Deaf Theory
60(23)
Frank Bechter
Part II. Deaf Perception and Community
Upon the Formation of a Visual Variety of the Human Race
83(17)
Benjamin Bahan
Coequality and Transnational Studies: Understanding Deaf Lives
100(11)
Joseph J. Murray
Sound and Belonging: What Is a Community?
111(16)
Hilde Haualand
Part III. Language and Literacy
On the Disconstruction of (Sign) Language in the Western Tradition: A Deaf Reading of Plato's Cratylus
127(19)
H-Dirksen L. Bauman
Turning Literacy Inside Out
146(12)
Marlon Kuntze
Critical Pedagogy and ASL Videobooks
158(11)
Lawrence Fleischer
Part IV. Places and Borders
The Decline of Deaf Clubs in the United States: A Treatise on the Problem of Place
169(8)
Carol Padden
Think-Between: A Deaf Studios Commonplace Book
177(12)
Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Border Crossings by Hearing Children of Deaf Parents: The Lost History of Codas
189(30)
Robert Hoffmeister
Part V. Intersections and Identities
Dysconscious Audism: A Theoretical Proposition
219(16)
Genie Gertz
The Burden of Racism and Audism
235(16)
Lindsay Dunn
Where Is Deaf HERstory?
251(13)
Arlene Blumenthal Kelly
Queer as Deaf: Intersections
264(13)
Mj Bienvenu
Part VI. The Question of Disability
Do Deaf People Have a Disability?
277(16)
Harlan Lane
Beyond Culture: Deaf Studies and the Deaf Body
293(21)
Douglas C. Baynton
Postdeafness
314(23)
Lennard J. Davis
Postscript: Gallaudet Protests of 2006 and the Myths of In/Exclusion
327(10)
H-Dirksen L. Bauman
Contributors
337(4)
Index
341