This well-organized and clearly written book provides a fascinating inside look at the development of Deaf culture...Padden and Humphries's presentation of these marvelous insights into the history and development of the language and beliefs of the Deaf should be viewed as a welcome step in the quest to inform the hearing world of the rich and fertile culture of the ... Read moreauthors' beloved community.
Susan Waltzman New England Journal of Medicine 20050728 Inside Deaf Culture is a fascinating account of the rise of group identity among deaf people...Padden and Humphries shed light on the rise of Deaf schools, social clubs and theaters from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries
a history that is unknown to many.
Jeremy Funk Christian Century 20060124 Carol Padden and Tom Humphries have done it again
and readers everywhere should be grateful. Almost twenty years ago, Padden and Humphries helped transform the nascent and promising field of deaf history with their path-breaking and still relevant book, Deaf in America: Voices From a Culture. In their current work, Padden and Humphries further explore formative cu1tura1 moments in the deaf community
what they describe as the generative ideas and influences that shape how deaf people identify themselves...This book is a valuable exploration of the deaf community.
Robert M. Buchanon American Historical Review Show Less