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Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Advance Access first published online on July 17, 2009
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The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, doi:10.1093/deafed/enp018
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Inclusive Deaf Studies: Barriers and Pathways

Jane K. Fernandes

University of North Carolina Asheville

Shirley Shultz Myers

Gallaudet University


  Abstract

Joining scholars signaling the need for new directions in Deaf Studies, the authors recommend a more expansive, nuanced, and interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the many ways deaf people live today. Rather than destroy Deaf culture, this approach is the only realistic way to allow it and Deaf Studies to survive. Deaf Studies today continues the focus of founding scholarship on native White American Sign Language users, now head of a powerful hierarchy through which they receive privileged status at the expense of deaf people with different language backgrounds and races or ethnicities. This marginalization is unsustainable and impedes knowledge. A companion article (this issue), "Deaf Studies: A Critique of the Predominant U.S. Theoretical Direction," analyzes this reactive stance that is oriented by a focus on audism built on the concepts of phonocentrism and colonialism.

Correspondence should be sent to Shirley Shultz Myers, Ph.D., Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20002-3695 (e-mail: shirley.shultz.myers{at}gallaudet.edu).

Received November 14, 2008; revised April 27, 2009; accepted June 11, 2009

Updated to correct text on page 10.


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