TY - JOUR
T1 - Life in the Neither World
T2 - Identity Work as Relational Negotiation of Authenticity and Stigma Management for Biculturally Deaf Individuals Living between Worlds
AU - Powell-Williams, Melissa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - This research examines identity negotiation, stigma management, and authenticity strategies utilized by culturally deaf individuals when navigating deviance within hearing, deaf, and Deaf worlds. Data reveal that respondents feel compelled to prove capability and normalizing themselves and deafness when with hearing and to defend and affirm authenticity when with other deaf and culturally Deaf others. These insights increase our awareness of the differing and often competing expectations many stigmatized individuals are expected to manage at a given time and the latent effects of identity work and management on individual agency and identity.
AB - This research examines identity negotiation, stigma management, and authenticity strategies utilized by culturally deaf individuals when navigating deviance within hearing, deaf, and Deaf worlds. Data reveal that respondents feel compelled to prove capability and normalizing themselves and deafness when with hearing and to defend and affirm authenticity when with other deaf and culturally Deaf others. These insights increase our awareness of the differing and often competing expectations many stigmatized individuals are expected to manage at a given time and the latent effects of identity work and management on individual agency and identity.
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U2 - 10.1080/01639625.2016.1266890
DO - 10.1080/01639625.2016.1266890
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010666382
SN - 0163-9625
VL - 39
SP - 243
EP - 256
JO - Deviant Behavior
JF - Deviant Behavior
IS - 2
ER -