Jesse the K wrote:
> John Langston Gwaltney is an anthropologist who's blind; I know the
> following titles but can offer no comment on their contents:
>
> The Dissenters : voices from contemporary America /
> [compiled by] John Langston Gwaltney.
> New York : Random House, c1986.
> ISBN: 0394527259 :
> Subjects: Dissenters--United States--Biography.
> Oral history.
> United States--Social conditions--1945-
A collection of essays and speeches by famous Americans that were in opposition
to various politics through out US history. According to my copy, it was
actually edited by John Gabriel Hunt.
>
>
> Drylongso : a self-portrait of Black America /
> [edited by] John Langston Gwaltney.
> New York : Vintage Books, 1981, c1980.
> ISBN: 0394747135 (pbk.) :
> Subjects: Afro-Americans--Social conditions--1975- --Addresses,
> essays, lectures.
> Afro-Americans--Civil rights--Addresses, essays, lectures.
> United States--Race relations--Addresses, essays,
> lectures.
To my knowledge, this is out of print. It is an examination of the Black
community through interviews with individuals within an inner city community
(can't remember which city) and each interview covers a specific topic --
passing, elders, etc.
>
>
> The thrice shy; cultural accommodation to blindness and
> other disasters in a Mexican community
> [by] John L. Gwaltney.
> New York, Columbia University Press, 1970.
> ISBN: 0231032374
> Subjects: Chinantec Indians.
> Blind--Mexico--Oaxaca.
> Medical Subjects: Onchocerciasis, Ocular--ethnology--Mexico.
>
Haven't read this one but Michael Oliver used excerpts from it in his book, The
Politics of Disablement.
>
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