Deaf Empowerment: Emergence, Struggle, and Rhetoric

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Index Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services (ADWAS), 155 Mrican Americans: Deaf, 107. See also Black English; Black Power movement; civil rights movement Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, 24 American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, 24 American Sign Language (ASL): in Deaf education, 28-30, 76; and Deaf social movement, 9, 71; development of, 21-22; recognized at Gallaudet, 149; recognized as a language, 79-80, 92, 149, 156, 158-59; translation of, 1516 . See also Deaf Community, sign language as important to; Deaf social movement, language as issue for Americans with Disabilities Act, 34, 94 Arensberg, C., 97n.2 argot, 79, 97-98n.4 Aristotle, 41 ASL. See American Sign Language audism, 80-81 Bahan, Ben, 146, 150, 153, 157 Ballin, Albert, 57 Barnhart, J. S., 107-108 Bell, Alexander Graham, 23-25, 53-54, 156 Berger, Peter, 3 Bienvenu, MJ, 144 Biller, Moe, 122 Birnbaum, David, 110 Black English, 71, 72-73 193 Black Power movement, 9-10, 69-70, 108, 138-40, 160 Board ofEducation ofthe Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley) 86-87 Bonior, David, 124, 125 Bookman, Ann, 6 Bosmajian, Haig, 40, 41 Bourne, Bridgetta, 110, 118 Bravin, Philip, 100, 117, 119-20, 147 British National Union of the Deaf, 93 Brockriede, Wayne, 9, 139 Bryan, William Jennings, 65n.2 Burke, Kenneth, 126 California School for the Deaf, 34, 151 Campbell, K. K., 139 Carmichael, Stokely, 69, 83 Castle, Diane, 84-85 Castle, William C., 84 Cathcart, R. S., 135n.3 civil rights movement, 68-69, 82-83, 108 Clerc, Laurent, 21-23 cochlear implants, 143-45 Cogswell, Alice, 21, 59-60, 127, 135n.7 Cogswell, Mason Fitch, 21 communication policies, 149-51 consciousness-raising, 65n.5, 157 Contrucci, Victor, 148 Corson, Harvey, Ill, 123, 135n.6, 157 court cases: relating to Deaf education, 86-87 Covell, Jerry, 110 Covington, v: C., 106 cultural diversity movements, 137-38, 139-40, 145, 149, 152, 156, 158, 173 194 Index Dannis, Joe, 157 Deaf community: building of, 44, 49, 166-69; and combined system, 26-27; confinement, theme of, 57-59; crucifixion as metaphor for, 56-57, 58; and Deaf ownership, 32-35; 146-52; and educational system 19-22, 23-26; evolution of, 20-23; Gallaudet movement as symbolic for, 32-33; ideological struggle with dominant culture, 37-50; images used by, 57-58; paternalism suffered by, 101-8, 115-17; position on cochlear implants, 143-44; sign language as important to, 26-30, 33-34, 38,44-46,49,54-56,59-62,63-64, 76; social engineering of, 31-32, 86-95 Deaf education: bilingual programs in, 33-34, 151-52; language as issue in, 50-54, 76-82; residential schools, 22, 31, 87-88; role of in Deaf community, 19-22,23-26 Deaf people: attitude toward mainstreaming , 88; bilingual identity for, 81-82, 149-50, 171-72; as different from norm, 41-42; in film, 32; hierarchy among, 46-48; integration of, 50-54; marriages among, 48-49; as normal, 166-69; participation in public life, 152-57; publications of, 49-50; rights of, 31-32; self-depreciation of, 104-6; separatism of, 44-50, 87-88, 89-93; social organizations of, 49; telephone communication for, 154-56 Deaf President Now movement, 1-2, 100-1, 109-35; confrontational strategyof , 120-21, 134-35; congressional support for, 124-25; demands of, 100, 124-125; leaders of, 110-11; media portrayal of, 121-25; mockery as strategyof , 125-29; paternalism of Gallaudet administration, 115-17, 118; rally for, 111-15; significance of, 13235 Deaf social movement, 2-3, 7-10, 28, 32-35, 63-64, 75-82, 137; barriers unique to, 169-71; beginnings of, 1920 , 38, 50; and disabled community, 93-95, 170; efforts to educate dominant society, 157-59; empowerment, 92,96, 158-59, 164-66;humor~ strategy of, 88-89, 140-42; ideological tensions in, 67-68; language as issue fo~ 76-82, 149-52, 156, 158-59; and other liberating movements, 67-68; ownership as theme in, 145-52, 160; and plantation mentality, 101-4, 11213 ,127; rhetorical strategies of, 11-13, 86-95, 96-97, 140-61; status of, 16973 ; struggle for full participation, 3132 , 34-35. See also Deaf President Now movement Deaf Studies programs, 107, 157-59 DeLoach, Mark, 132 Denton, R. E., Jr., 137 Derrida, Jacques, 64-65n.l dividing practices, 37-38, 44, 52-53, 63, 106-8 Ebonics. See Black English education. See Deaf education...