On the beat of truth : a hearing daughter's stories of her black deaf parents

On the beat of truth : a hearing daughter's stories of her black deaf parents /

As an African American woman born in 1943, the author possessed a unique vantage point to witness the transformative events in her parents' lives. Both came from the South - her father, Herbert Childress, from Nashville, TN, and her mother, Thomasina Brown, from Concord, NC. The oldest of three...

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Main Author: Brown, Maxine Childress
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, 2013
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Subjects:
Brown, Maxine Childress > Family.
Brown, Maxine Childress.
African Americans with disabilities > Biography.
Children of deaf parents > United States > Biography.
Deaf parents > United States > Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Brown and Childress Family Trees
  • A Policeman Comes A-Knockin'
  • Herbert Andrew Childress
  • Annie Dublin Nero and Martha Nero Brown
  • Thomasina Brown
  • Maxine
  • Becoming Aware of Things, Part I
  • Silent Herbert
  • Becoming Aware of Things, Part II
  • Social Club and Church
  • Summer with Grandma
  • From Chocolates to Fresh Goat and Pig Meat
  • Crossword Pruzzles and Pearl Bailey
  • The Bench
  • Becoming Aware of Things, Part III
  • The Notebook
  • From Happiness to Misery
  • Asbury Park
  • When Tempers Flare
  • Theodore Beamon
  • Let It Go
  • Epilogue.

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