Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South

by Mary Herring Wright

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1944838589
• ISBN13: 9781944838584
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"