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Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language New edition
Douglas C. Baynton
Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language New edition
Douglas C. Baynton
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.
240 pages, 12 halftones, 3 tables
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 22, 1998 |
ISBN13 | 9780226039640 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 235 |
Dimensions | 230 × 155 × 12 mm · 378 g |
Language | English |
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