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Title: The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community by Harlan L. Lane ISBN: 1-58121-009-4 Publisher: Dawnsign Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Mostly negative tone, thought-provoking content.
Comment: I found this book to be engaging almost from the beginning; it is meticulously researched, well organized, logical, yet passionate in its defense of an oppressed language minority. One could certainly argue that Mr. Lane short-changes his opponents by not really addressing their arguments on the benefits of mainstreaming Deaf children, but the purpose of this book is not to present both sides of the issues; the purpose is to demonstrate the oppression of the Deaf language and therefore their culture. It provides strong evidence that the Deaf child is a minority, not an invalid, and that the tendency of hearing parents to see mainstreaming as the only option is a dangerous mistake. This is deep reading and scholarly writing, at times to the point of near inaccessibility to a mainstream audience. However, it is convincing and eye-opening if one is willing to put the effort into reading it.
Sadly, the reader from New Jersey seems to have missed the point of this book. By condemning Mr. Lane as refusing to "recognize that different lifestyles are better for different people," he fails to see that Mr. Lane defends the Deaf as a different lifestyle that deserves to be recognized! This book is not saying that no Deaf (especially late-deafened adults) should try to learn lip-reading or consider cochlear implants. It is simply saying that those Deaf who wish to take part in Deaf culture, who wish to be Deaf, should be given that option as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent and thought-provoking
Comment: Harlan Lane shows how Deafness is a cultural affiliation and only through the hearing world's oppression does it become a disability. Very well-written and researched, Lane digs deep into the Deaf culture and history to bring us this excellent resource. I believe that anyone saying that this work is biased and obsolete holds biased and obsolete viewpoints themselves. Come into this with an open mind, and you will leave a better person. Highly recommended!
Rating: 1
Summary: Obsolete and Biased viewpoint
Comment: This book is biased, not up to date in it's views of oral-deaf education, and outright offensive to those in the Deaf community who chose to use technology to be able to hear and speak. Yes, some deaf people DO want to be able to hear! Is that so surprising? Harlan Lane is an extremist who refuses to recognize that different lifestyle choices are better for different people. The audist and oral-deaf education community are supportive of and unopposed to sign language and Deaf culture. However, they also believe that if one's choice is to live in the hearing world, one should be afforded the opportunity to do so. Today's technologies of advanced hearing aids and cochlear implants, combined with modern education and therapy techniques make this opportunity available to the majority of deaf persons, particularly young children. The oral-deaf education community recognizes that ASL may still be the choice of many, and has no wish to damage or eliminate deaf culture. Why then does Harlan Lane refuse to similarly acknowledge in this book the fact that hearing aids and cochlear implants do work, and deaf children (and adults) can and do learn to hear and speak very well by using them? What is wrong with that if that is someone's choice, or if that is the choice of the hearing parents of a deaf child?
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Title: A Journey into the Deaf-World by Harlan L. Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, Ben Bahan, Harlan Lane, Benjamin J. Bahan ISBN: 0915035634 Publisher: Dawnsign Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf by Harlan L. Lane ISBN: 0679720235 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $22.70 |
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Title: Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture by Carol Padden, Tom Humphries ISBN: 0674194241 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver W. Sacks, Oliver, M.D. Sacks ISBN: 0375704078 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Train Go Sorry: Inside a Deaf World by Leah Hager Cohen ISBN: 0679761659 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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