Show threadRyan RandallDec 8, 2023

How cool is this Deaf Studies Digital Journal? It shows the article in the original sign language video, with a synchronized transcript in English as well!

Here's Dr. Carolyn McCaskill's article "Black ASL: The Effects of its Discovery on the Community":

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dsdj/15499139.0005.010/--black-asl-the-effects-of-its-discovery-on-the-community?rgn=main;view=fulltext #BlackASL #ASL #DeafStudies #Deaf #AmericanSignLanguage

Black ASL: The Effects of its Discovery on the Community

CeceliaJul 6, 2023

Looking up #ASL vocabulary, I don’t usually find videos of Black folks.

#BlackASL #BASL

Karen MardahlFeb 9, 2023
I just spent 27 minutes learning a lot about #BlackASL in the Signing Black in America video: https://youtu.be/oiLltM1tJ9M I gained a lot of respect for Deaf culture by reading Oliver Sacks’ “Seeing Voices” years ago. Tonight, I just learned about Black ASL from this video. Fascinating and rich history, but also tragic to discover the segregation and racism that affects this culture, too. (I cannot sign at all, unfortunately. I am just fascinated by languages.) #Deaf #DeafCulture #Language #ASL
Signing Black in America - more about this project at www.talkingblackinamerica.org

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fialkaFeb 3, 2023

Because of segration, #BlackDeaf people developed their own distinctive version of American Sign Language. Here's a page on #BlackASL and #BlackDeafHistory made by CSDHH in Greensboro, NC (where so much other #CivilRights activity has happened!) for #BlackHistoryMonth in 2021: http://www.csdhh.org/black-asl. Definitely worth circulating every year!

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #ASL #BASL #DeafCulture

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