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Postdeafness
In the eighteenth century, schools for the deaf began to flourish
deaf people were able to participate in the public and civil sphere
deaf people moved from being seen as childlike or mentally deficient to being seen as diseased and degenerate beings
less highly evolved than their normalized counterparts in the hearing world.
Gregor Mendel
came up with model for inheritance but did not understand how this worked
Before the eighteenth century, prelingually deaf people were widely regarded in a category that included madmen, lunatics, and idiots
they had the status of children or animals
they were constructed as lesser people, childlike, and without the full rights of citizens
deaf people were increasingly allowed
by a hearing majority to partake in citizenship
Anyone who was not in the dominant group, which tended to define itself as the norm,
was seen as abnormal
animal breeding had allowed a rough understanding of the process by which traits could be inherited and in which that inheritance could be shaped by selective mating
Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution
Deaf people, like these other groups, were assembled into entities in schools and institutions subjected to statistical studies, and were part of a project to educate them into oral language, whose lack was seen as a deficit
oral education was seen as a prosthetic device
that would make people who were lacking a part of their human body whole
Deaf people were seen as a race along with many other races because of the idea of inherited traits.
encouragement of breeding
between members of “fitter families.”
the T-4 program killed tens of thousands of people with disabilities, deaf people, people with mental illnesses and homosexuals
deaf people and the other groups were all seen as people carrying inherited and inheritable traits
The defeat of Nazi Germany had two effects for the purposes of this discussion: it eliminated eugenics s as a viable intellectual and social pursuit and it gave a bad name to the concept of “race.”
Ethnicity allowed the inclusion of cultural, socioeconomic, religious, and political qualities, , language, diet, dress, customs, kinship systems, and historical or territorial identity
historically, the era of identity is connected fundamentally to a notion of inherited traits linked to groups of people who carry such traits
Postmodernism also included a cultural idea
of pastiche or kitsch in which icons of race nation, and ethnicity became all mixed up
the so called Connexin 26 gene is responsible for some kinds of inherited deafness