17th October 2012

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naturallysisou: amillionparachutes: Black and White Vernacular in American Sign Language Guest Contributor, racialicious.com By Guest Con­trib­u­tor Lisa Wade, cross-posted from Soci­o­log­i­cal Images Frances Stead Sell­ers at the Wash­ing­ton Post has a fas­ci­nat­ing account of the dif­fer­ences in Black and White Amer­i­can sign lan­guage. Sell­ers… I read this in the paper a few weeks ago! I have the physical copy somewhere in my room. One of the best sings they showed in the paper (but not online for some reason) was the Black ASL sign for “girl, please.” the book actually shows a variety of signs for Black Asl? I gonna have to get it then.

naturallysisou:

amillionparachutes:

Black and White Vernacular in American Sign Language
Guest Contributor, racialicious.com

By Guest Con­trib­u­tor Lisa Wade, cross-posted from Soci­o­log­i­cal Images

Frances Stead Sell­ers at the Wash­ing­ton Post has a fas­ci­nat­ing account of the dif­fer­ences in Black and White Amer­i­can sign lan­guage. Sell­ers…

I read this in the paper a few weeks ago! I have the physical copy somewhere in my room. One of the best sings they showed in the paper (but not online for some reason) was the Black ASL sign for “girl, please.”

the book actually shows a variety of signs for Black Asl? I gonna have to get it then.

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    Thanks for expanding on the racial variations, champ :)
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    Ok, so I read and reblogged this same article a while back, but with diff comments on it [link] (check out the article I...
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    Click through for more examples and a brief discussion of one girl’s experience of having to learn white ASL for school.
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