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  • A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History
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  • Brian H. Greenwald and John Vickrey Van Cleve, Editors
  • 2008
  • Published by: Gallaudet University Press
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Despite its prominence as a world cultural center and a locus of research on deaf culture, history, education, and language for more than 150 years, Gallaudet University has only infrequently been the focal point of historical study. Eminent historians Brian H. Greenwald and John Vickrey Van Cleve have remedied this scarcity with A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History. In this collection, a remarkable cast of scholars examine the university and its various roles through time, many conducting new research in the Gallaudet University Archives, an unsurpassed repository of primary sources of deaf history. Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson sets the stage in his essay “A Fair Chance in the Race of Life,” President Abraham Lincoln’s first statement to Congress championing the rights of all people. The papers that follow scrutinize Gallaudet’s long domination by hearing presidents, its struggle to find a place within higher education, its easy acquiescence to racism, its relationship with the federal government, and its role in creating, shaping, and nurturing the deaf community. These studies do more than simply illuminate the university, however. They also confront broad issues that deal with the struggles of social conformity versus cultural distinctiveness, minority cohesiveness, and gender discrimination. “Deaf” themes, such as the role of English in deaf education, audism, and the paternalism of hearing educators receive analysis as well.

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  1. Cover
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  1. title page
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  1. copyright
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  1. CONTENTS
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. 1. A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: Thoughts on the 150th Anniversary of the Founding of the Columbia Institution
  2. pp. 1-11
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  1. 2. John Carlin and Deaf Double-Consciousness
  2. pp. 12-21
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  1. 3. A Legacy of Leadership: Edward Miner Gallaudet and the Columbia Institution, 1857–1864
  2. pp. 22-32
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  1. 4. The Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell Statue: Controversies and Celebrations
  2. pp. 33-49
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  1. 5. Two Views on Mathematics Education for Deaf Students: Edward Miner Gallaudet and Amos G. Draper
  2. pp. 50-64
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  1. 6. Douglas Craig, 186?-1936
  2. pp. 65-84
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  1. 7. The Women of Kendall Green: Coeducation at Gallaudet, 1860–1910
  2. pp. 85-1112
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  1. 8. The Struggle to Educate Black Deaf Schoolchildren in Washington, D.C.
  2. pp. 113-131
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  1. 9. George Detmold, The Reformer
  2. pp. 132-139
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  1. 10. Building Kendall Green: Alumni Support for Gallaudet University
  2. pp. 140-153
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  1. 11. The Power of Place: The Evolution of Kendall Green
  2. pp. 154-169
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  1. 12. DPN and the Evolution of the Gallaudet Presidency
  2. pp. 170-188
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 189-194
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 195-198
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