Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language by Douglas C. Baynton

Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign Against Sign Language

Douglas C. Baynton

235 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf peo...

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