Title Sounds like home : growing up Black and deaf in the South / Mary Herring Wright

Edition 20th anniversary edition Published Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Contents A bouquet of roses -- The beginning -- Iron mine school days -- More childhood memories -- Scary times -- Make me a child again -- A new kind of life -- The nightmare begins -- The train ride to a new world -- Home!! -- Queen of the fairies -- The old and the new -- Changes, worries, and adventures -- Coming of age -- Boys and other trouble -- More changes and a difficult decision -- Accepted at last -- Graduation -- From student to teacher -- Good-bye, school days! Hello, world! -- Epilogue Summary "Originally published in 1999, Sounds Like Home adds an important dimension to the canon of deaf literature by presenting the perspective of an African American deaf woman who attended a segregated deaf school. Mary Herring Wright documents her life from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s, offering a rich account of her home life in rural North Carolina and her education at the North Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, which had a separate campus for African American students. This 20th anniversary edition of Wright's story includes a new introduction by scholars Joseph Hill and Carolyn McCaskill, who note that the historical documents and photographs of segregated Black deaf schools have mostly been lost. Sounds Like Home serves "as a permanent witness to the lives of Black Deaf people.""--Ebscohost viewed June 3, 2020 Notes Revised edition of the author's Sounds like home, c1999 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2020) Subject Wright, Mary Herring, 1924-2018. SUBJECT Wright, Mary Herring, 1924-2018 fast Subject Deaf women -- North Carolina -- Biography African American women -- North Carolina -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General Deaf women African American women North Carolina Genre/Form Biographies Form Electronic book LC no. 2019022227 ISBN 9781944838591 1944838597

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