InfoGuides: LEAD 306 Leadership in the Deaf Community: Unity for Gallaudet (2006)

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Unity for Gallaudet Movement (2006)

The Unity for Gallaudet Movement was a protest movement started by students, faculty, and alumni of Gallaudet University and other sympathizers who did not support the nomination of Dr. Jane Fernandes as president of the university. Ultimately, these protests resulted in the Board of Trustees rescinding her appointment. The board subsequently appointed Robert Davila as the college's interim president for the following two years.

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The Unity for Gallaudet protest and the emergence of visual rhetoric in ASL vlogs: the medium and the message / Pamela R. Conley, Patti Durr, & Stephen Jacobs
Introduction to American Deaf Culture by Thomas K. Holcomb
Tom Holcomb discusses the complex characteristics that make up Deaf Culture.
Prayer Warriors
Prayer warriors" portrays several Christian Deaf students' spiritual interpretation of the events of the Unity for Gallaudet protests of October 2006.
Tara's story
DVD-RW at Deaf Studies Archive. American Sign Language. Some English intertitles. No captioning. Some portions with sound, others silent

Sample Materials

Deaf Empowerment 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
A Kitty Elovsson film: October 13
ASL with English captions.
Moments of Truth
Two days at Gallaudet
Videocassette from Deaf Studies Archive. A documentary of four students from Rochester Institute of Technology's visit to Gallaudet University during the October 2006 "Unity for Gallaudet" protests
Two days in October
DVD.American Sign Language only. No captions. Deaf Studies Archives. A documentary showing footage of the Unity for Gallaudet student protests in October 2006, when Gallaudet students protested the selection of Jane Fernandes to serve as the university's 9th president