Deaf culture: Difference between revisions

Educator and ASL interpreter Anna Mindess notes that there is "not just one homogeneous deaf culture".<ref name="mindess2006" /> There are many distinct Deaf communities around the world, which communicate using different [[sign languages]] and exhibit different cultural norms. Deaf identity also intersects with other kinds of [[cultural identity]]. Deaf culture intersects with nationality, education, race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, and other identity markers, leading to a culture that is at once quite small and also tremendously diverse. The extent to which people identify primarily with their deaf identity rather than their membership in other intersecting cultural groups also varies. Professor Anthony J. Aramburo found in a study titled ''The Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community'' (1989) that "87 percent of black deaf people polled identified with their black culture first".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aramburo |first=Anthony J. |chapter-url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780124580459500112 |title=The Sociolinguistics of the deaf community |publisher=Academic Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-12-458045-9 |editor-last=Lucas |editor-first=Ceil |editor-link=Ceil Lucas |location=San Diego |pages=113 |chapter=5 - Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community |access-date=2 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="mindess2006" /> Deaf minority youth who belong to multiple minority groups face unique challenges. <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Foster |first1=S. |title=Deaf Persons of Asian American, Hispanic American, and African American Backgrounds: A Study of Intraindividual Diversity and Identity |journal=Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education |date=1 July 2003 |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=271–290 |doi=https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/eng015}}</ref> Deaf Black individuals, may face discrimination from both Black hearing people and White deaf individuals. <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Foster |first1=S. |title=Deaf Persons of Asian American, Hispanic American, and African American Backgrounds: A Study of Intraindividual Diversity and Identity |journal=Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education |date=1 July 2003 |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=271–290 |doi=https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/eng015}}</ref>