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Acting White The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation

Buck Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780300171204, Yale University Press, October 2011
272 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Commentators from Bill Cosby to Barack Obama have observed the phenomenon of black schoolchildren accusing studious classmates of 'acting white'. How did this contentious phrase, with roots in Jim Crow-era racial discord, become a part of the schoolg...

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Deaf and Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Burch Susan, Kafer Alison

ISBN: HB: 9781563684647, Gallaudet University Press, July 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity, but from different points of view on the Deaf/Disability compass. Editors Susan Burch and Alison Kafer have divided these works aro...

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Neighborhood That Never Changes Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity

Brown-Saracino Japonica

ISBN: PB: 9780226076638, ISBN: HB: 9780226076621, University of Chicago Press, February 2010
352 pp., 21.8x14.7 cm, 3 maps, 10 tables, 22 halftones

Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as "A Neighborhood That Never Changes" demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local...

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Telling About Society

Becker Howard S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226041261, ISBN: HB: 9780226041254, University of Chicago Press, November 2007
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 15 line drawings

"I Remember", one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs – each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analy...

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Through Deaf Eyes A Photographic History of an American Community

Baynton Douglas, Gannon Jack R., Lindquist Bergey Jean

ISBN: HB: 9781563683473, Gallaudet University Press, April 2007
200 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour photos

In 2001, the Smithsonian Institution presented the landmark photographic exhibition "History Through Deaf Eyes", representing nearly 200 years of United States deaf history. Drawing heavily on the extensive archives at Gallaudet University, the curat...

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Damned for Their Difference The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled

Branson Jan, Miller Don

ISBN: PB: 9781563681219, Gallaudet University Press, June 2002
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Damned for Their Difference" offers a well-founded explanation of how Deaf people became classified disparagingly worldwide as "disabled", through a discursive exploration of the cultural, social, and historical contexts of these attitudes and behav...

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For the Love of It Amateuring and Its Rivals

Booth Wayne C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065861, ISBN: HB: 9780226065854, University of Chicago Press, October 2000
248 pp., 23x15 cm

"For the Love of It" is a story not only of one intimate struggle between a man and his cello, but also of the larger struggle between a society obsessed with success and individuals who choose challenging hobbies that yield no payoff except the love...

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Deaf Mute Howls

Ballin Albert

ISBN: PB: 9781563680731, Gallaudet University Press, September 1998
135 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Originally published in 1930, "The Deaf Mute Howls" challenged the prevailing practice of teaching deaf children to speak and read lips while prohibiting the use of sign language. Albert Ballin's sharp observations in this remarkable book detail his...

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