I went to a Carolyn McCaskill presentation about the perception of African American ASL signers. I had to wake up early on a Friday morning… which I m used to waking up at noon, but after listening the presentation, it was very much worth waking up for!
First, she introduced us by having a central question, and everything else would be centered by the question, is African-Americans’ signing different than the whites? Why? McCaskill showed us some videos and theories, we could see a significant difference from African American signers to White signers. African Americans would use their two hands a lot more, and their signing space is a lot more wide. Also, McCaskill did a lot intensive researching on discovering the African Americans’ view of the signing difference between African Americans and the whites. McCaskill traveled over six different states to do some interviewing, and she managed to give us some examples of how the signing of African Americans and Whites are different and how they are changing.
Overall, the presentation was well researched, and she gave us the accurate information, and I enjoyed the presentation, I learned a lot as well.
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