Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry
by
Harlan Lane, Richard C. Pillard, Ulf Hedberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
What are ethnic groups? Are Deaf people who sign American Sign Language (ASL) an ethnic group? In The People of the Eye, Deaf studies, history, cultural anthropology, genetics, sociology, and disability studies are brought to bear as the authors compare the values, customs, and social organization...