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Deaf people have always had a sense of their history as it was being passed down in stories told by generations of students walking in the hallways of their residential schools and by others who congregated in their clubs, ran associations, attended religious services, and played in sporting events....

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Published inSign language studies Vol. 17; no. 1; p. 5
Main Authors Greenwald, Brian H, Murray, Joseph J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Gallaudet University Press 01.10.2016
Subjects
Algorithms
Cultural heritage
Data mining
Deafness
Historians
History
Minority & ethnic groups
Museums
Presidents
Research Methodology
Sign language
Students
Undergraduate Students
Women
United States > US
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Summary:Deaf people have always had a sense of their history as it was being passed down in stories told by generations of students walking in the hallways of their residential schools and by others who congregated in their clubs, ran associations, attended religious services, and played in sporting events. The field of Deaf history owes a great debt to the pioneering work of five scholars: psychologist Harlan Lane; Jack R. Gannon, educator, historian, and author of several books; the authors of the first textbook on Deaf history, John Vickrey Van Cleve and Barry A. Crouch, and John "Stan" Schuchman Lane's 1984 When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf was a landmark work that brought Deaf history to the attention of the wider public and served as a reinforcement of the deaf community's narratives of its members as a cultural and linguistic minority.
ISSN:0302-1475
1533-6263