Reviews for Deaf Way II : An International Celebration

The average rating for Deaf Way II : An International Celebration based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-24 00:00:00 Donna Gerba When I sat down this morning to write my review of this book, it quickly got so unwieldy that I decided to just spin it off into a standalone essay for the general public at my blog. I strongly encourage you to go read that, if you want to know more about what this book is about and why it's so important to learn, if you're to understand anything about the modern Deaf community as it exists in the late 2010s. As far as the book itself, it's serviceable but no great shakes, the last few chapters in particular written in a "graduate school term paper" style that make them a challenge to non-academic readers like me. But I'm giving the book a good score anyway, simply because it covers a subject so critically important to Deaf history, and does it in a much more thorough and enlightening way than any other book does, literally a sometimes hour-by-hour breakdown of this so momentous week back in 1988. It comes recommended in this specific spirit, not because it's particularly well-written but because its subject matter is so important.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-14 00:00:00 Deborah Mctiernan A fascinating and informative description and analysis of a significant historical protest for Deaf self-actualization. I'm not giving it five stars because I would have liked to see analysis of how race, class, and gender impacted the protests, which appear to have been largely led by white men, quite unusually for protests. However, I learned a lot, and it definitely provides food for thought regarding how to organize successful protests.