A fair chance in the race of life : the role of Gallaudet University in deaf history / Brian H. Greenwald, John Vickrey Van Cleve, editors.
Greenwald, Brian H.; Van Cleve, John V.
2008
HV2561.W18 F35 2008 (Mapit)
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Title A fair chance in the race of life : the role of Gallaudet University in deaf history / Brian H. Greenwald, John Vickrey Van Cleve, editors.
ISBN 9781563683954 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1563683954 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2008.
Language English
Description xii, 198 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Call Number HV2561.W18 F35 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.1/9827209753
Summary From the Publisher: 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Greenwald, Brian H.
Van Cleve, John V.
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Acknowledgments
Editors' introduction
1: Fair chance in the race of life: thoughts on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Columbia Institution / James M McPherson
2: John Carlin and deaf double-consciousness / Christopher Krentz
3: Legacy of leadership: Edward Miner Gallaudet and the Columbia Institution, 1857-1864 / David de Lorenzo
4: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Alice Cogswell statue: controversies and celebrations / Michael J Olson
5: Two views on mathematics education for deaf students: Edward Miner Gallaudet and Amos G Draper / Christopher A N Kurz
6: Douglas Craig, 186?-1936 / Marieta Joyner
7: Women of Kendall Green: coeducation at Gallaudet, 1860-1910 / Lindsey M Parker
8: Struggle to educate black deaf school children in Washington, DC / Sandra Jowers-Barber
9: George Detmold, the reformer / Ronald E Sutcliffe
10: Building Kendall Green: alumni support for Gallaudet University / Noah D Drezner
11: Power of place: the evolution of Kendall Green / Benjamin Bahan and Hansel Bauman
12: DPN and the evolution of the Gallaudet presidency / I King Jordan
Contributors
Index.

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