Ground-breaking scholarly volume on Deaf people's actions to decolonize the hearing world and make it accessible on all levels to the Deaf community.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments I, Donald A. Grushkin

Acknowledgments II, Leila Monaghan.

Preface, Donald A. Grushkin

1. Deaf Empowerment: Toward the Decolonization of Sign Language Peoples, Donald A. Grushkin and Leila Monaghan

2. National Deaf Empowerment at Whose Expense? A Guatemalan Parable of New and Aspiring National Sign Languages in Indigenous Communities, Erich Fox Tree

3. Community and External Naming of Deaf People: A Study of Identity, Labeling and Resistance, Donald A. Grushkin

4. Empowerment and Stigma: Redistribution/ Recognition Dilemmas at the South Dakota School for the Deaf, Abigail Rosenthal

5. Empowerment of Elderly Deaf in the Netherlands: Residents of De Gelderhorst United, Anja Hiddinga and the Beyond Hearing. Cultures Overlooked Research Collective

6. The Deaf Way Out of No Way: Adaptation of a Culturally Relevant Arts Education Model in a Deaf Community

Devastated by Cultural Linguicide, Joanne Weber

7. The Legitimation of Brazilian Sign Language in Internet Videos, Ana Gediel and Molly Bloom

8. Evolution of Deaf Collective Resistance: The Deaf Grassroots Movement as a Case Study,

Kathleen L. Brockway and Donald A. Grushkin