In their article “The told me my name: developing a deaf identity” Laura Mauldin and Tara Fannon analyze qualitative data collected through narrative interviews with five Deaf, gay and lesbian individuals with different racial backgrounds and find that deaf people’s encounters with one another and how, relatedly, becoming Deaf is shaped by Goffman’s concepts of affiliation and obtrusiveness.
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