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"Choice" Outstanding Academic Title 2003
"Burch's rich and well-researched chronicle of the U.S. Deaf
community's efforts to claim and shape their full participation in
public life between 1900 and 1942 reminds historians of the many
forms debates have taken in U.S. history regarding how a proper
citizen should look, act, and speak."
--"Reviews in American History"
"Burch offers insightful comparisons. Her book is important to
the fields of Deaf studies and disability studies, but it will
appeal to social historians as well."
--"Journal of American History"
"Forcefully and gracefully narrates Deaf people's dramatic
struggle against hearing oppression in the early twentieth century.
Incorporating new data from archival research and community
interviews, Burch applies tools of social analysis to challenge
earlier interpretations that underestimated Deaf people's success
in preserving their core values. The resulting study is fascinating
and important to students of American social history and
disability."
--John Van Cleve, Gallaudet University
During the nineteenth century, American schools for deaf
education regarded sign language as the "natural language" of Deaf
people, using it as the principal mode of instruction and
communication. These schools inadvertently became the seedbeds of
an emerging Deaf community and culture. But beginning in the 1880s,
an oralist movement developed that sought to suppress sign
language, removing Deaf teachers and requiring deaf people to learn
speech and lip reading. Historians have all assumed that in the
early decades of the twentieth century oralism triumphed
overwhelmingly.
Susan Burch shows us that everyone has it wrong; not only did
Deaf students continue to use sign language in schools, hearing
teachers relied on it as well. In Signs of Resistance, Susan Burch
persuasively reinterprets early twentieth century Deaf history:
using community sources such as Deaf newspapers, memoirs, films,
and oral (sign language) interviews, Burch shows how the Deaf
community mobilized to defend sign language and Deaf teachers, in
the process facilitating the formation of collective Deaf
consciousness, identity and political organization.
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