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Compensation
UNITED STATES · 1999

Compensation

Zeinabu irene Davis
disability representation African American history deaf identity intersectionality temporal parallels
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Synopsis

The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s.

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