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Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard
Nora Ellen Groce, 1985
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A medical anthropologist documents a Martha's Vineyard community where hereditary deafness was so common that hearing and Deaf islanders alike grew up signing, and Deaf people were simply neighbors, not "the disabled." One of the most powerful real-world arguments for the social model: same bodies, different world, no exclusion. A short, vivid classic.
Deaf CultureDisability Studies
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Available at many academic and public libraries and from Harvard University Press.