Open AccessAfrican American Parents’ Perceptions of an American Deaf Community: Where’s the Poetic Justice?
Author(s) -
Valerie Borum
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2005.1828
Subject(s) - narrative , grounded theory , style (visual arts) , poetry , psychology , chinese americans , qualitative research , thematic analysis , sociology , perception , deaf culture , deaf community , social psychology , gender studies , aesthetics , pedagogy , linguistics , visual arts , literature , anthropology , sign language , art , ethnic group , philosophy , neuroscience
Poetic prose, a creative qualitative technique, is used to present the findings (emerging themes) of in-depth, thematic interviews with 14 African American parents with deaf children. This is presented in a multi- vocal, interactive, and interwoven style. This style of interweaving voices of participants in a creative poetic prose is indicative of African American cultural and oral traditions. It also permits and deepens the reader’s ability to emotionally and spiritually connect with experiences and emotions of African American parents and their perceptions of an American deaf community. This research was conducted using a modified grounded theory approach where theory (grand narrative) and communal- personal-based narratives interact. Afrocentricsm offers a powerful conceptual frame for organizing these experiences of parents of deaf children within the deaf community and schools for deaf children.