| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

From Pity to Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South. By Hannah Joyner. (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2004. xii, 210 pp. $49.95, ISBN 1-56368-270-2.)
In the past two decades, a growing number of social historians have provided increasingly complex portraits of the individual and shared experiences of the nation's Deaf citizens in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In From Pity to Pride, the historian Hannah Joyner offers a carefully considered and well-documented study that centers on the education and coming of age of several prominent white Deaf men in the antebellum South.	1
Deaf adults in the decades before the Civil War, Joyner explains, faced formidable cultural obstacles. Most southern hearing elites as well as educators depicted deafness as a grave deficiency. Deprived of hearing and, by all accounts, the ability readily to acquire spoken language, Deaf children, according to this view, were separated from family, society—indeed, their very humanity.	. . .

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