NDLS 289 Special Topics- Deaf and Global South: Source Examples

The story of a deafened boy from India who emigrated to Gallaudet and became a successful educator.

The only child of deaf Puerto Rican immigrants, Andrés Torres grew up in New York City in a large, extended family that included several deaf aunts and uncles..

Deaf: Hear Me tells real, personal stories of being deaf in India, from growing up to living in a 'hearing' world. The film was made by a dedicated team of deaf and hearing colleagues.

Ishara is a documentary about the problems deaf people face in Nepal. Without education, the deaf remain outcasts in their own villages and barely communicate with their families. A Deaf cultural movement is, however, beginning to emerge in Nepal, to advocate for deaf people's rights

Interview with Victor Vodounou, divided into five sections, covering selected cultural identity and personal incidents from an African perspective.

Story about two deaf siblings raised their entire lives without access to written, spoken, or signed language on a farm in northern Nicaragua. They meet a Deaf sign language teacher who is determined to teach them their first words. In Nicaraguan SL and Spanish with English subtitles.

Kusters describes spaces produced by both deaf and hearing people as a cohesive community where living together is an integral fact of their sociocultural environments. At the same time, Kusters identifies tension points between deaf and hearing perspectives and also between outside perspectives and discourses that originated within the community. Because of these differences and the relatively high number of deaf people in the community, Kusters concludes it is natural that they form deaf spaces within the shared space of the village community.

Albarrán discusses the history of Deaf education in Puerto Rico in the 20th century.

Cooper describes the ways that signed-language practices, ideologies, policies, and programming shape and are shaped by Deaf people's social engagement in and around Ho Chí Minh City.