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Peer reviewedLane, Harlan – Sign Language Studies, 1988
By describing the paternalism inherent in the parallels between the history of Burundi and that of deaf people, a letter to a woman in Burundi with five deaf children attempts to persuade her to allow her youngest to further her education in the United States. (LMO)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Colonialism, Cultural Isolation, Deafness
