Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language

Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language

by Douglas Baynton (Author)

Synopsis

This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 235
Edition: New edition
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 11 Jun 1998

ISBN 10: 0226039641
ISBN 13: 9780226039640