At Home Among Strangers: Exploring the Deaf Community in the United States

by Jerome D. Schein

Book Overview

A good overview of the Deaf experience and a timely acquisition for libraries. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930323513
• ISBN13: 9780930323516
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

At home among strangers

I think this book does a great job of summarizing subjects that I have read entire books on before. There is a lot of information packed into this book. It gives you a great perspective on the Deaf community in Amercia.

An Historical Overview

This is a well-written historical overview of the Deaf community in America and of Deaf activism. It contains a lot of good information about Deaf organizations and events that hearing people are largely unaware of, so if you are a hearing person who wants to learn more about the Deaf community, this isn't a bad place to start, along with other books and classes in ASL.

An Historical Overview

At Home Among Strangers is a well-written historical overview of the Deaf community in America and of Deaf activism. Jerome Schein is a hearing academic who studies the Deaf community from a sympathetic but somewhat distant perspective. It contains a lot of good information about Deaf organizations and events that hearing people are largely unaware of, so if you are a hearing person who wants to learn more about the Deaf community, this isn't a bad place to start, along with other books and classes in ASL.