Preface vii Introduction: Listening to Deaf Studies 1(34) H-Dirksen L. Bauman Part I. Framing Deaf Studies Talking Culture and Culture Talking 35(7) Tom Humphries Colonialism and Resistance: A Brief History of Deafhood 42(18) Paddy Ladd The Deaf Convert Culture and Its Lessons for Deaf Theory 60(23) Frank Bechter Part II. Deaf Perception and Community Upon the Formation of a Visual Variety of the Human Race 83(17) Benjamin Bahan Coequality and Transnational Studies: Understanding Deaf Lives 100(11) Joseph J. Murray Sound and Belonging: What Is a Community? 111(16) Hilde Haualand Part III. Language and Literacy On the Disconstruction of (Sign) Language in the Western Tradition: A Deaf Reading of Plato's Cratylus 127(19) H-Dirksen L. Bauman Turning Literacy Inside Out 146(12) Marlon Kuntze Critical Pedagogy and ASL Videobooks 158(11) Lawrence Fleischer Part IV. Places and Borders The Decline of Deaf Clubs in the United States: A Treatise on the Problem of Place 169(8) Carol Padden Think-Between: A Deaf Studios Commonplace Book 177(12) Brenda Jo Brueggemann Border Crossings by Hearing Children of Deaf Parents: The Lost History of Codas 189(30) Robert Hoffmeister Part V. Intersections and Identities Dysconscious Audism: A Theoretical Proposition 219(16) Genie Gertz The Burden of Racism and Audism 235(16) Lindsay Dunn Where Is Deaf HERstory? 251(13) Arlene Blumenthal Kelly Queer as Deaf: Intersections 264(13) Mj Bienvenu Part VI. The Question of Disability Do Deaf People Have a Disability? 277(16) Harlan Lane Beyond Culture: Deaf Studies and the Deaf Body 293(21) Douglas C. Baynton Postdeafness 314(23) Lennard J. Davis Postscript: Gallaudet Protests of 2006 and the Myths of In/Exclusion 327(10) H-Dirksen L. Bauman Contributors 337(4) Index 341