TY - GEN T1 - From pity to pride : growing up deaf in the Old South A1 - Joyner, Hannah LA - English PP - Washington, D.C. PB - Gallaudet University Press YR - 2004 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocm68045496 AB - The antebellum South's economic dependence on slavery engendered a rigid social order in which a small number of privileged white men dominated African Americans, poor whites, women, and many people with disabilities. From Pity to Pride examines the experiences of a group of wealthy young men raised in the old South who also would have ruled over this closely regimented world had they not been deaf. Instead, the promise of status was gone, replaced by pity, as described by one deaf scion, "sometimes fancy some people to treat me as they would a child to whom they were kind." In this unique and fascinating history, Hannah Joyner depicts in striking detail the circumstances of these so-called victims of a terrible "misfortune."#x9D; Joyner makes clear that Deaf people in the North also endured prejudice. She also explains how the cultural rhetoric of paternalism and dependency in the South codified a stringent system of oppression and hierarchy that left little room for self-determination for Deaf southerners. From Pity to Pride reveals how some of these elite Deaf people rejected their family's and society's belief that being deaf was a permanent liability. Rather, they viewed themselves as competent and complete. As they came to adulthood, they joined together with other Deaf Americans, both southern and northern, to form communities of understanding, self-worth, and independence. OP - 210 CN - HV2561.S74 J68 2004eb SN - 1563683164 SN - 9781563683169 SN - 1563682702 SN - 9781563682704 KW - Deaf people : Southern States : History : 19th century. KW - Deaf people : Education : Southern States : History : 19th century. KW - Deaf people : Southern States : Social conditions. KW - Southern States : Social conditions : 19th century. KW - Persons with Hearing Disabilities : history. KW - Deafness : history KW - Education of Persons with Hearing Disabilities. KW - History, 19th Century KW - Southeastern United States KW - Personnes sourdes : États-Unis (Sud) : Conditions sociales. KW - Personnes sourdes : Éducation : États-Unis (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Personnes sourdes : États-Unis (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - États-Unis (Sud) : Conditions sociales : 19e siècle. KW - Médecine : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : People with Disabilities. KW - HISTORY / General KW - Deaf KW - Deaf : Education KW - Deaf people : Social conditions KW - Social conditions KW - Southern States KW - Gehörlosigkeit KW - USA : Südstaaten KW - 1800-1899 KW - History ER -