Kerri Hicks
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Hi Jai, thanks for your comment. I’m curious about one thing in your essay — and that is context. Especially in the discussions of intermarriage of Deaf people, there’s still some level of suspicion, it seems, in your opinion about what Bell was really trying to do, or his motivations. But you didn’t address Gallaudet and NAD’s strong polemics against intermarriage of Deaf people, as a contrast to what Bell was saying at the time. I think it’s really impossible for a story about Bell to truly reflect the truth of the time without realizing that there was a disconnect coming from the leaders of the Deaf community itself.

I really appreciate your list of citations, too. Thanks again!

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