The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL

By Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, Joseph Christopher Hill
Contributions by Roxanne Dummett, Pamela Baldwin, and Randall Hogue
Foreword by Glenn B. Anderson
Categories: Linguistics, African American Studies

Black ASL has long been recognized as a distinct variety of American Sign Language based on abundant anecdotal evidence. The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL, originally published in 2011, presents the ...

Sounds Like Home

By Mary Herring Wright
Introduction by Joseph Christopher Hill & Carolyn McCaskill
Categories: African American Studies

Originally published in 1999, Sounds Like Home adds an important dimension to the canon of deaf literature by presenting the perspective of an African American deaf woman who attended a segregated deaf ...

Far from Home

By Mary Herring Wright
Categories: African American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Biography / Memoir

“She’s got no more business there than a pig has with a Bible.” That’s what her father said when Mary Herring announced that she would be moving to Washington, DC, in late 1942. Recently graduated ...