Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary Herring Wright, Joseph Christopher Hill (Introduction by), Carolyn McCaskill (Introduction by)Publish date:2019-10-01Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Gallaudet University PressISBN-13:9781944838584ISBN-10:1944838589UPC:9781944838584Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Women, People with Disabilities, Cultural, Ethnic & RegionalBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCF7VB097D
Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South
Originally published in 1999, Sounds Like Home adds an important dimension to the canon of deaf literature by presenting the perspective of an African American deaf woman who attended a segregated deaf school. Mary Herring Wright documents her life from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s, offering a rich account of her home life in rural North Carolina and her education at the North Carolina School...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Gallaudet University PressISBN-13:9781944838584ISBN-10:1944838589UPC:9781944838584Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Women, People with Disabilities, Cultural, Ethnic & RegionalBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCF7VB097D
Mary Herring Wright (1923-2018) grew up in Iron Mine, North Carolina. She began losing her hearing at the age of eight, and was completely deaf by age ten. In 1935, her family sent her to the North Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, where she was both a student and a teacher. She then moved to Washington, DC and became a clerk for the US Department of the Navy. She later returned to her...
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Edition
20th Anniversary Edition
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