A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History

A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History

edited by Brian H. Greenwald, fl. 1999 and John Vickrey Van Cleve, fl. 1999 (District of Columbia: Gallaudet University Press, 2008, originally published 2008), 211 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary
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 statement when he chartered the first college for deaf students. 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.
Field of Interest
Disability Studies
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008 Gallaudet University Press
Content Type
Book
Duration
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Warning: Contains explicit content
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Format
Text
Original Publication Date
2008
Page Count
211
Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press
Place Published / Released
District of Columbia
Subject
Disability Studies, Diversity, Advocacy and Rights, Independence, Education, & Accessibility, Race, Class, Sexuality & Gender, Government, Racism, Deafness, Gender discrimination, Colleges and universities, Rights and advocacy, Social movements, Abogacía y Derechos, Advocacia e Direitos, Accessibility and Independence, History of Care, Independência, Educação e Acessibilidade, Independencia, Educación y Accesibilidad, Education, Gender, Class, Economic status, Raza, Clase, Sexualidad y Genero, Raça, Classe, Sexualidade e Gênero, Sexuality, Gallaudet University, World War I & Jazz Age (1914–1928), The Sixties (1960–1974), Late 20th Century (1975–2000), Early 21st Century United States (2001– ), Post-war Era (1945–1960), Reconstruction (1866–1876), Depression & World War II (1929–1945), The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Civil War (1860–1865), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859)
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Rights and advocacy, Social movements, Abogacía y Derechos, Advocacia e Direitos, Accessibility and Independence, History of Care, Independência, Educação e Acessibilidade, Independencia, Educación y Accesibilidad, Education, Gender, Class, Economic status, Raza, Clase, Sexualidad y Genero, Raça, Classe, Sexualidade e Gênero, Sexuality

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