Ordinary Lives (Paperback)

Eric C. Nystrom

ISBN 10: 1625347634 / ISBN 13: 9781625347633

Published by University of Massachusetts Press, Massachusetts, 2024

Paperback. The collective social history of deaf people in America has yet to be written. While scholars have focused their attention on residential schools for the deaf, leaders in the deaf community, and prominent graduates of these institutions, the lives of ordinary deaf individuals have been largely overlooked. Employing the methods of social history, such as the use of digital history techniques and often-ignored sources like census records, Eric C. Nystrom and R. A. R. Edwards recover the lived experiences of everyday deaf people in late nineteenth century America. Ordinary Lives captures the stories of deaf women and men, both Black and white, describing their family lives, networks of support, educational experiences, and successes and hardships. In this pioneering deaf social history, Edwards and Nystrom reconstruct the biographies of a wider range of deaf individuals to tell a richer, more nuanced, and more inclusive history of the larger American deaf community. Employing the methods of social history, such as the use of digital history techniques and often-ignored sources like census records, Eric Nystrom and R.A.R. Edwards recover the lived experiences of everyday deaf people in late nineteenth century America. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781625347633

Synopsis:

The collective social history of deaf people in America has yet to be written. While scholars have focused their attention on residential schools for the deaf, leaders in the deaf community, and prominent graduates of these institutions, the lives of “ordinary” deaf individuals have been largely overlooked.

Employing the methods of social history, such as the use of digital history techniques and often-ignored sources like census records, Eric C. Nystrom and R. A. R. Edwards recover the lived experiences of everyday deaf people in late nineteenth century America. Ordinary Lives captures the stories of deaf women and men, both Black and white, describing their family lives, networks of support, educational experiences, and successes and hardships. In this pioneering “deaf social history,” Edwards and Nystrom reconstruct the biographies of a wider range of deaf individuals to tell a richer, more nuanced, and more inclusive history of the larger American deaf community.

About the Author: Eric C. Nystrom is associate professor of history at Arizona State University.

R. A. R. Edwards is professor of history at Rochester Institute of Technology and author of Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Ordinary Lives (Paperback)
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, Massachusetts
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new