Deaf Empowerment: Resistance and Decolonization

What is Deaf Empowerment and how is it manifested?
The chapters in this book present case studies of attempts at decolonization of Deaf/Sign Language Peoples’ spaces, languages, and consciousnesses across a range of eras, nationalities, ages and gender, highlighting the individual and collective nature of this work.
Donald A. Grushkin and Leila Monaghan, Deaf Toward the Decolonization of Sign Language Peoples
Erich Fox Tree, National Deaf Empowerment at Whose Expense?
A Guatemalan Parable of New and Aspiring National Sign Languages in Indigenous Communities
Donald A. Grushkin, Community and External Naming of Deaf A Study of Identity, Labeling and Resistance
Abigail Rosenthal, Empowerment and Redistribution/Recognition Dilemmas at the South Dakota School for the Deaf
Anja Hiddinga and the Beyond Hearing. Cultures Overlooked Research Collective, Empowerment of Elderly Deaf in the Residents of De Gelderhorst United
Joanne Weber, The Deaf Way Out of No Adaptation of a Culturally Relevant Arts Education Model in a Deaf Community Devastated by Cultural Linguicide
Ana Luisa Gediel and Molly Bloom, The Legitimation of Brazilian Sign Language in Internet Videos
Kathleen L. Brockway and Donald A. Grushkin, Evolution of Deaf Collective The Deaf Grassroots Movement as a Case Study
Donald A. Grushkin is a professor of Deaf Studies at California State University Sacramento. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in Language, Reading and Culture. He lives in the East Bay area of northern California with his wife, children and dogs.
Leila Monaghan has a PhD in linguistic anthropology and MAs in anthropology and education and history. She currently teaches at Northern Arizona University. She co-edited Many Ways to be Deaf and Barriers and Belonging, among other volumes, and is the publisher of Elm Academic Press.