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Film, Video Preserving American Deaf Culture

Event video

Transcript: TEXT

About this Item

Title

  • Preserving American Deaf Culture

Summary

  • This panel discussed 100 years of sociolinguistic preservation of American Sign Language and its role in the preservation of culture. Participants also discussed the famous filmed exhortation by George W. Veditz and later events that thrust deaf community and culture to the forefront of media and accessibility awareness.

Names

  • Library of Congress

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2016-04-12.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Education
  • -  signs, sign language, American Sign Language, linguist, linguistics, language, deaf, deaf people, hearing

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Mekaella Vail'u, Max Williamson.
  • -  Recorded on 2016-04-12.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Visitors.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021690100

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress. Preserving American Deaf Culture. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-12, 2016. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690100/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress. (2016) Preserving American Deaf Culture. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-12. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690100/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress. Preserving American Deaf Culture. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-12, 2016. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021690100/>.