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Mother Father Deaf Living Between Sound and Silence

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ISBN-10: 0674587480

ISBN-13: 9780674587489

Edition: 1994

Authors: Paul M. Preston

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"Mother father deaf" is the phrase commonly used within the Deaf community to refer to hearing children of deaf parents. These children grow up between two cultures, the Hearing and the Deaf, forever balancing the worlds of sound and silence. Paul Preston, one of these children, takes us to the place where Deaf and Hearing cultures meet, where families like his own embody the conflicts and resolutions of two often opposing world views. Based on 150 interviews with adult hearing children of deaf parents throughout the United States, Mother Father Deaf examines the process of assimilation and cultural affiliation among a population whose lives incorporate the paradox of being culturally…    
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 7/21/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Paul Preston manages the recently created national Research and Training Center on Families of Adults with Disabilities, located at Through the Looking Glass, a nonprofit organization in Berkeley, California. He is also Research Associate in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco.

When Cultures Collide
Introduction
Interpreting Our Lives
Family Albums
Invisible and Profound
Views from the Other Side
The Alternate Family
Imperfect Mirrors
Childhood Landscapes
A Song You Never Heard Before
Inside Out or Upside Down
The Heritage of Difference
Hyphenated Lives
A Distant World Called Home
Identity on the Margins of Culture
Epilogue
Glossary
Notes
Reference
Acknowledgment
Index