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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edition of Wright's story includes a new introduction by scholars Joseph Hill and Carolyn McCaskill, who note that the historical documents and photographs of segregated Black deaf schools have mostly been lost.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." Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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She wrote this memoir for her family, and as a result it does have that feel of perhaps not wanting to delve too deeply into emotions and bitterness. But here and there you can read between the lines -- such as when the students visit the white school and see how much nicer it is. Or the high turnover of teachers at her school. Or, when she graduates, she is told she has much promise but the University for the Deaf (Gallaudet) at that time was for whites only. And HBUs did not have the financial resources to provide sign language interpreters.
First published in 1999 (my edition). A newer edition includes a foreword which probably adds further illuminations to Mrs. Wright's memoir. Mrs. Wright wrote a sequel, Far From Home: Memories of World War II and Afterward which I would like to read eventually. Both memoirs are published by Gallaudet University Press, which means they are very expensive -- they are over $30 each in trade paperback. ( )