This article examines the process of deaf people coming to identify as culturally Deaf—a distinction typically made in the literature as an identity belonging to those who use sign language to communicate—and how this identity process co-occurs with other social identities, namely sexuality and race. Through pairing Goffman's work with perspectives from Feminist Disability Studies, we extend the sociological literature on both identity and disability. To do so, we analyze qualitative data collected through narrative interviews with five Deaf, gay and lesbian individuals with different racial backgrounds. Our analysis surfaces deaf people's encounters with one another and how, relatedly, becoming Deaf is shaped by Goffman's concepts of affiliation and obtrusiveness. For example, we show how shifting affiliations occur when transitioning into a minority (e.g., Deaf) culture, through interactions that demand managing the obtrusiveness of multiple intersecting, potentially discrediting, statuses. Our article also reveals a bidirectional relationship between affiliation and obtrusiveness.

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他们告诉我我的名字：建立聋人身份

本文考察了聋人在文化上被识别为聋人的过程—在文学中通常将其区分为属于使用手语进行交流的人的身份—以及这种身份过程是如何与其他社会身份（即性）共同发生的和种族。通过将戈夫曼的著作与女权主义残疾研究的观点相结合，我们扩展了关于身份和残疾的社会学文献。为此，我们分析了通过叙事访谈收集的定性数据，这些访谈来自五个种族背景不同的聋哑，同性恋者。我们的分析浮出水面是聋人彼此之间的相遇，以及与之相关的如何成为聋人是由高夫曼的从属关系和强迫性概念塑造的。例如，我们通过互动来说明在过渡到少数群体（例如，聋哑人）文化时转变的从属关系是如何发生的，这些交互要求管理多个相交的，潜在的卑鄙身份的过分的吸引力。我们的文章还揭示了从属关系和强迫性之间的双向关系。