Cash Cows and Useless Eaters: The Appeal of Sign Languageand the Inconvenience of Access
Año:
2019
Editorial:
Acadeafic
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Temas
Comunidad y cultura sorda, Formación
Detalles
Deaf people have published vlogs and blogs explaining that hearing people should not teach sign language; this contributes to the marginalization of deaf people. Those complaints (see examples here and here). have suggested that sign language teaching to nondeaf students should be the realm of deaf people and heritage signers.
This has become a question of social and disability justice. In the context of disability justice, we interrogate the underlying and overarching factors in this resistance to nondeaf people teaching sign language. This resistance is partly rooted in a neoliberal critique of the university. Universities in the United States have profited handsomely from sign languages.