Description
Over the past decade, a significant body of work on the topic of deaf identities has emerged. In this volume, Leigh and O'Brien bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines -- anthropology, counseling, education, literary criticism, practical religion, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and deaf studies -- to examine deaf identity paradigms. In this book, contributing authors describe their perspectives on what deaf identities represent, how these identities develop, and the ways in which societal influences shape these identities. Intersectionality, examination of medical, educational, and family systems, linguistic deprivation, the role of oppressive influences, the deaf body, and positive deaf identity development, are among the topics examined in the quest to better understand deaf identities. In reflection, contributors have intertwined both scholarly and personal perspectives to animate these academic debates. The result is a book that reinforces the multiple ways in which deaf identities manifest, empowering those whose identity formation is influenced by being deaf or hard of hearing.
Table of Contents
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Deaf Identities: A Maturing Framework Irene W. Leigh Chapter 2. Sociological Perspectives on Deaf Identities Leala Holcomb, Thomas Horejes, Joseph Santini, and Oscar Ocuto Chapter 3. Identity, Ethics and the Deaf Community Teresa Blankmeyer Burke Chapter 4. Religion and Deaf Identity Noah Buchholz and Rabbi Darby Jared Leigh Chapter 5. Lessons Learned: How Studying Cochlear Implantation Reveals the Context in Which d/Deaf Identities Are Formed Laura Mauldin Chapter 6. The Impact of Identity on Culturally Responsive School Leadership: Leaders of Schools and Programs for the Deaf Catherine A. O'Brien Chapter 7. The Body as a Canvas: Developing a Deaf Bodily Habitus in Deaf Signing Preschools Patrick Graham and Joseph Tobin Chapter 8. Identity Positioning and Languaging in Deaf-Hearing Worlds: Some Insights from Studies of Segregated and Mainstream Educational Settings Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta Chapter 9. Minimizing the Impact of Language Deprivation and Limited Access to Role Models on Deaf Identity Development in Children and Adults: Global Perspectives for Positive Change Goedele A.M. De Clerck and Debbie Golos Chapter 10. Intersectionality- Beyond the Individual: A Look into Cultural Identity Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children of Multicultural "Hearing" Families Cheryl Wu and Nancy Grant Chapter 11. Stories in the Building of Deaf Identity: The Potential of Storytelling to Enhance Deaf Flourishing and Well-Being Goedele De Clerck Chapter 12. Examining the Intersectionality of Deaf Identity, Race/Ethnicity, and Diversity through a Black Deaf Lens Lindsay Moeletsi Dunn and Glenn B. Anderson Chapter 13. Deaf and Queer at the Intersections: Deaf LGBTQ People and Communities Cara A. Miller and Kyle Amber Clark Chapter 14. On (Always) PassingBrenda Jo Brueggemann Chapter 15. In Between Spiderman and the Incredible Hulk: Crises of Collage, Mutating Identities, and Collective Subjectivities Joseph Michael Valente Chapter 16. Looking through the Kaleidoscope: A Metaphor for Convergences of Identities Denise Thew Hackett Chapter 17. Concluding Thoughts: Expanding the FrontierCatherine A. O'Brien and Irene W. Leigh Endnotes
