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Signing in Puerto Rican : A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family / Andres Torres
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Torres, Andrés, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Torres, Andrés, 1947---Family.
- Torres, Andrés.
- Torres, Andrés, 1947---Childhood and youth.
- Puerto Rican Society for the Catholic Deaf.
- Catholics--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Catholics.
- Deaf people--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Deaf people.
- Puerto Ricans--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Puerto Ricans.
- Deaf people--Family relationships--United States--Case studies.
- Children of deaf parents--United States--Biography.
- Children of deaf parents.
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 232 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : Gallaudet University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The only child of deaf Puerto Rican immigrants, Andrés Torres writes of growing up in New York in a Deaf/hearing family that communicated freely in a mix of Spanish, ASL, and English.
- Contents:
- The A train
- Early signs
- A signing village
- Hearing streets
- Juvenile maneuvering
- Observing and learning
- Family truths
- A whole world watching
- God and marriage
- Despierta Boricua
- A garden
- Puerto Rican and deaf
- Bicentennial moves
- Border crossings.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-56368-437-3
- OCLC:
- 794700902
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