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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Gallaudet University Press,
2013
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Brown and Childress Family Trees
- A Policeman Comes A-Knockin'
- Herbert Andrew Childress
- Annie Dublin Nero and Martha Nero Brown
- Thomasina Brown
- Maxine
- Becoming Aware of Things, Part I
- Silent Herbert
- Becoming Aware of Things, Part II
- Social Club and Church
- Summer with Grandma
- From Chocolates to Fresh Goat and Pig Meat
- Crossword Pruzzles and Pearl Bailey
- The Bench
- Becoming Aware of Things, Part III
- The Notebook
- From Happiness to Misery
- Asbury Park
- When Tempers Flare
- Theodore Beamon
- Let It Go
- Epilogue.