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Sounds like home : growing up Black and deaf in the South / Mary Herring Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, (c)2019.Edition: 20th anniversary editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781944838591
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV2534 .S686 2019
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
A bouquet of roses -- The beginning -- Iron mine school days -- More childhood memories -- Scary times -- Make me a child again -- A new kind of life -- The nightmare begins -- The train ride to a new world -- Home!! -- Queen of the fairies -- The old and the new -- Changes, worries, and adventures -- Coming of age -- Boys and other trouble -- More changes and a difficult decision -- Accepted at last -- Graduation -- From student to teacher -- Good-bye, school days! Hello, world! --
Subject: "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edition of Wright's story includes a new introduction by scholars Joseph Hill and Carolyn McCaskill, who note that the historical documents and photographs of segregated Black deaf schools have mostly been lost.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.""--Ebscohost viewed June 3, 2020.
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Revised edition of the author's Sounds like home, c1999.

Includes bibliographical references.

A bouquet of roses -- The beginning -- Iron mine school days -- More childhood memories -- Scary times -- Make me a child again -- A new kind of life -- The nightmare begins -- The train ride to a new world -- Home!! -- Queen of the fairies -- The old and the new -- Changes, worries, and adventures -- Coming of age -- Boys and other trouble -- More changes and a difficult decision -- Accepted at last -- Graduation -- From student to teacher -- Good-bye, school days! Hello, world! --

"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.""--Ebscohost viewed June 3, 2020.

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