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This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people. The debate about sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages", humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, the author found that, although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Forbidden Signs
• Subtitle: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language
• Author: Douglas C. Baynton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 235
• EAN: 9780226039640
• ISBN: 0226039641
• ID: 04542400
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 378 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 230 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. June 1998

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