This groundbreaking quantity introduces readers to the foremost suggestions and debates in deaf experiences, delivering views at the relevance and richness of deaf methods of being on the earth. In Open Your Eyes, prime and rising students, the vast majority of whom are deaf, ponder actual and cultural obstacles of deaf areas and probe the complicated intersections of deaf identities with gender, sexuality, incapacity, kinfolk, and race. jointly, they discover the position of sensory conception in developing neighborhood, redefine literacy in mild of signed languages, and delve into the profound scientific, social, and political dimensions of the incapacity label frequently assigned to deafness.

Moving past proving the life of deaf tradition, Open Your Eyes exhibits how the tradition contributes very important insights on problems with identification, language, and gear, and, eventually, demanding situations our culture’s obsession with normalcy. 

Contributors: Benjamin Bahan, Gallaudet U; Douglas C. Baynton, U of Iowa; Frank Bechter, U of Chicago; MJ Bienvenu, Gallaudet U; Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Ohio kingdom U; Lennard J. Davis, U of Illinois, Chicago; Lindsay Dunn, Gallaudet U; Lawrence Fleischer, California nation U, Northridge; Genie Gertz, California nation U, Northridge; Hilde Haualand, FAFO Institute; Robert Hoffmeister, Boston U; Tom Humphries, U of California, San Diego; Arlene Blumenthal Kelly, Gallaudet U; Marlon Kuntze, U of California, Berkeley; Paddy Ladd, U of Bristol; Harlan Lane, Northeastern U; Joseph J. Murray, U of Iowa; Carol Padden, U of California, San Diego.

H-Dirksen L. Bauman is professor and director of the graduate software in Deaf reviews at Gallaudet college. he's coeditor of Signing the physique Poetic: Essays in American signal Language Literature, government editor of the Deaf experiences electronic Journal, and govt manufacturer and codirector of the documentary movie Audism Unveiled.