Suggested Readings on Deaf History and Culture

Suggested Reading

The following are resources on Deaf history and culture. This page will always be a work in progress. You can visit the Gallaudet University Press for more books. If there are publications, films, or websites you would like to suggest as additions, please contact us using the form at the bottom of the page.

Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking
H-Dirksen L. Bauman, editor

Deaf Gain: Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity
H-Dirksen L. Bauman and Joseph J. Murray, Editors

Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America
Jack R. Gannon

The Week the World Heard Gallaudet
Jack R. Gannon

In Our Own Hands: Essays in Deaf History, 1780 – 1970
Brian H. Greenwald and Joseph J. Murray, Editors

A Fair Chance in the Race of Life: The Role of Gallaudet University in Deaf History
Brian H. Greenwald and John Vickrey Van Cleve, Editors

The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure

ASL Version

Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Joseph Hill in collaboration with Roxanne King, Pamela Baldwin, and Randall Hogue

Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood
Paddy Ladd

ASL Translations by the Deafhood Foundation.

Inside Deaf Culture
Carol Padden and Tom Humphries

Deaf People in Hitler’s Europe
Donna F. Ryan and John S. Schuchman, Editors
Published in Association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Audism Unveiled
DVD
Directors: Ben Bahan, H-Dirksen Bauman, and Facundo Montenegro