Mary Herring Wright

Sounds Like Home

Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South

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Produktbeschreibung

"I decided to write my story because I wanted my children to have a lasting document that chronicled my experiences growing up as a deaf person in Iron Mine, North Carolina. I also decided to write my story for my many deaf friends because my story, in many ways, is also their story."--From Mary Herring Wright's Foreword to Sounds Like Home

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gallaudet University Press
• 20th Anniversary edition
• Seitenzahl: 271
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781944838584
• ISBN-10: 1944838589
• Artikelnr.: 57131406

Autorenporträt

Mary Herring Wright (1923-2018) grew up in Iron Mine, North Carolina. She began losing her hearing at the age of eight, and was completely deaf by age ten. In 1935, her family sent her to the North Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, where she was both a student and a teacher. She then moved to Washington, DC and became a clerk for the US Department of the Navy. She later returned to her roots in North Carolina and raised a family. Mary Herring Wright was awarded an honorary degree from Gallaudet University in 2004. She is also the author of Far From Home: Memories of World War II and Afterward. Mary Herring Wright participated as an informant in the Black ASL Project, which researched the linguistic features that make Black ASL recognizable as a distinct variety of American Sign Language. The research was published in the book The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure, and her interviews can be seen at the Gallaudet University Press YouTube channel.