| Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Wright, Mary Herring (Author), Hill, Joseph Christopher (Introduction by), McCaskill, Carolyn (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1944838589 ISBN-13: 9781944838584 Publisher: Gallaudet University Press OUR PRICE: $31.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | People With Disabilities - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2019019842 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in 1999, Sounds Like Home adds an important dimension to the canon of deaf literature by presenting the perspective of an African American deaf woman who attended a segregated deaf school. Mary Herring Wright documents her life from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s, offering a rich account of her home life in rural North Carolina and her education at the North Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, which had a separate campus for African American students. This 20th anniversary edition of Wright's story includes a new introduction by scholars Joseph Hill and Carolyn McCaskill, who note that the historical documents and photographs of segregated Black deaf schools have mostly been lost. Sounds Like Home serves "as a permanent witness to the lives of Black Deaf people." |