| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Canada and the United States

Susan Burch. Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II. (The History of Disability Series.) New York: New York University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 230. $38.00.

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed profound changes in the makeup of the American population. Millions of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe crowded the nation's shores from 1900 to 1924. In the Great Migration, thousands of southern African-Americans moved to America's urban core in search of a better life. The Great Depression caused massive numbers of rural midwestern whites to relocate to the West Coast. These population shifts led to battles over what it meant to be an American. Fought in schools, in the workplace, at the ballot box, and even in the home, these struggles between the majority culture and minority groups centered on issues of acculturation, assimilation, and cultural preservation. Susan Burch examines these battles from the perspective of a seemingly anomalous minority group: the American deaf community. Viewing deaf individuals as a minority culture rather than as disabled Americans, Burch attempts to show "the ways deaf people's experiences both resembled and differed from those of other significant minority groups" (p. 5). . . .

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