Monday, 13 Apr 2020
CANCELED: Signing Black in America: The Story of Black American Sign Language
Dr. Ceil Lucas is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Gallaudet University and editor of the journal Sign Language Studies. Dr. Hill is the director of the Deaf Studies Laboratory. They collaborated on the recent book The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure and are co-associate producers of the documentary Signing Black in America, focusing on under-represented linguistic topics and the language of marginalized groups.