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A Culture of Oppression: Education, Deafness, and Blackness in America

Nicole Iaquinto | March 24, 2008 - 11:27 am

Tags: culture, deaf culture, education, oppression, struggle

A Culture of Oppression: Education, Deafness, and Blackness in America

The word ‘culture’ is so malleable, flexible, all
encompassing (at least from a cosmopolitan point of view) that I feel any
person wishing to deny a certain group the right to constitute themselves a
specific culture to entirely out of line. If any group of people can find
something in common with one another that allows them to feel safe, accepted,
and allows them to relate, I believe they should be able to label it their
culture. Subcultures, or cultures that do not necessarily find themselves in
the same social hierarchy as mainstream cultures, are still cultures regardless