Black ASL Project

Berry sent me a link the other day to a new book being published on ASL Eubonics. I plan to purchase it in the future.
 
:wave: kbnyc, no problem!

Jillio, different book, yes? I'm interested in the link if you want to post it here...
 
There was a project from my home state that was about researching and documenting some of the older black generation folks and their experiences in a all-black deaf school before segregation, etc. I was lucky to have some of them come to one of our open panels to share their experiences. Some of the stories were heartbreaking, but others were very inspiring and uplifting. One woman showed us her sign for "cornbread" which is different than the one I used...why? For years her family made corn a certain way, as slaves. I was inspired to get a minor in African American studies after meeting some of the most remarkable people on this Earth.
 
dogmom said:
:wave: kbnyc, no problem!

Jillio, different book, yes? I'm interested in the link if you want to post it here...
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I'm afraid I deleted the PM after I added it to my Amazon wishlist, but the book cab be found at Amazon.
 
Bottesini said:
Are you joking, or did you not know that it developed differently in segregated deaf schools?

And that in the heyday of deaf clubs, there were separate clubs for black and white deaf people?
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I guess DrPhil never lived in the South.

In VA, there are two VSDBs. One in Staunton and one in Hampton. The Hampton School for the deaf was traditionally for Deaf blacks though nowadays it's for deaf with multiple disablities.
 
I admit I am fairly ignorant on the subject of the history of deaf black schools. My understand on this subject is that the deaf black schools only persisted 1 or two generations before beginning to integrate. I can imagine there were some difference between the quality of education between the two schools but I suspect there was never any real differences between the sign language used between the two groups.

From what I saw when I was in college, there really are no barriers between races among the Deaf. Sure individuals may use racal slurs from time to time, but they were the exception not the norm. Children rarely see difference until someone else points them out.
 
Cheetah said:
I admit I am fairly ignorant on the subject of the history of deaf black schools. My understand on this subject is that the deaf black schools only persisted 1 or two generations before beginning to integrate. I can imagine there were some difference between the quality of education between the two schools but I suspect there was never any real differences between the sign language used between the two groups.

From what I saw when I was in college, there really are no barriers between races among the Deaf. Sure individuals may use racal slurs from time to time, but they were the exception not the norm. Children rarely see difference until someone else points them out.
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It was quite different some years ago. No one is left from that time so it doesn't exist so much now.
 
Hey, Reba...I think I remember you talking about this book a while back, and my mind is blank regarding the title. It has been so long since I read it. It was the biography of a young deaf black girl growing up in the south. Do you remember the title? It would fit right in with this thread.
 
jillio said:
Hey, Reba...I think I remember you talking about this book a while back, and my mind is blank regarding the title. It has been so long since I read it. It was the biography of a young deaf black girl growing up in the south. Do you remember the title? It would fit right in with this thread.
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Please. Reba? I'd like to know about this book too.
 
Bottesini said:
Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South by Mary Herring Wright.
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I love you, Bott! :ily:That is the one!:ty:

Very interesting perspective she had. I would recommend it. Talk about obstacles...she had a triple whammy: Black, Deaf, and southern.
 
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