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On the Beat of Truth : A Hearing Daughter's Stories of Her Black Deaf Parents /

As an African American woman born in 1943, the author possessed a unique vantage point to witness the transformative events in her parents' lives. Both came from the South - her father, Herbert Childress, from Nashville, TN, and her mother, Thomasina Brown, from Concord, NC. The oldest of three...

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Autor principal: Brown, Maxine Childress
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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