Contents

Foreword to the Reissued Edition

Lindsay Moeletsi Dunn

Foreword to the Original Edition

Let’s Get Busy: Empowerment and Development Are the Keys

Larry G. Coleman

Cousin Hattie’s Sister’s People: The Ties Between Identity and Leadership Within the Black Deaf Community

Sheryl Guest-Emery

A Minority Within a Minority Within a Minority: Being Black, Deaf, and Female

Angela Gilchrist and Carolyn Emerson

Minority Persons With Disabilities: Equal to the Challenges of the 21st Century

Sylvia Walker

Sociolinguistic Issues in the Black Deaf Community

Clayton Valli, Ruth Reed, Norman Ingram, Jr., and Ceil Lucas

Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community

Anthony J. Aramburo

Black, Deaf, and Mentally Ill: Triple Jeopardy

Reichelle P. Anderson

Advising Black Students: Enhancing Their Academic Progress

Sanremi LaRue-Atuonah and Charlotte Doland

Black Deaf People in Higher Education

Dianne Brooks, Carl M. Moore, and Shirley Allen

Personal Perspectives on Empowerment

Glenn Anderson

The Role of a Special School for Deaf Children in Meeting the Needs of Black and Hispanic Profoundly Deaf Children and their Families

Oscar P. Cohen and Cynthia Grace

A Story About a Group of People

Larry G. Coleman

Panel Discussions