The present article starts from the perspective of cultural history in the direction of the Deaf Studies. We aim to examine theoretical research that enables the vision of cultural history to be captured in everyday life, the resistances and doings in the culture, in our case, of the deaf people. In these theoretical studies we observed the role deaf culture plays, permeated by the construction of identity, by the Sign Language and the deaf pedagogy. And in contact with that cultural history we noticed a methodology that emphasizes the importance of deaf people participation in this construction. Such history reveals the knowledge in which memories of experiences about 'being deaf' come into scene, with a comprehensive view about what happens with deaf people, especially the bodies gagged by institutional policies, the conflicts in the colonialism field and the educational oppressive systems, the struggles for identity and cultural meanings. These contributions become frequent evidence of subjectivistic signs and meanings. The challenge is to build a new cultural history, registering the struggles for deaf identity, for the construction of a cultural identity, for the recognition of the Sign Language, for the emancipation of deaf subjects from all forms of oppression and their free and spontaneous development as well as for the pedagogy to deaf people.
history; culture; deaf culture; historical agents; subjectivity; empowerment