

Lissa Ramirez-Stapleton, PhD
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Black Deaf Resources
The resources below are a collection of websites, videos, books, readings, and other learning material that I have found to be helpful overtime and use in my Black Deaf Communities course. This list is constantly growing and is a compilation of resources that have been shared with me over social media, I have found on YouTube or have been created by the Black Deaf community or disability support organizations. If you use these resources please give credit to the individual(s) or organization that labored to put the material together. This information can be found within each link. Please use these resources as a starting point to incorporate Black Deaf life, experiences, and history into your courses and/or to expand your understanding and knowledge about the diversity, needs, history and complexities of Black community life.
Art
RIT/NTID Dyer Arts Center- List of Black Deaf Artists
Black Deaf History – Joseph Sarpy (Actor)
Education
“From White Deaf People’s Adversity to Black Deaf Gain”: A Proposal for a New Lens of Black Deaf Educational History By Dr. Rezenet Tsegay Moges
Black Deaf Ph.D Project
The Powerful History Story about Deaf Black & White Students Separated
Black, Disabled, and Proud: College Students with Disabilities
History of the Maryland School for the Colored Deaf and Blind
Black Deaf History- Southern School for the Deaf
International Black Deaf Perspectives & Resources
Deaf and Destined to Bridge the World | Isidore Niyongabo | TEDxSDSU
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLje7b52sfs
Dr. Andrew Foster, Ghana and the Roots of Deaf Education in Africa
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=1537s&v=nHHr6DYxRy0
Documentary Deaf Rolemodels in Kenya, Africa
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aMBA7rIdPZ8
Organizations
National Black Deaf Advocates (NBDA)
Born Too Soon? Willard Shorter (Founder of NBDA)
http://library.rit.edu/exhibits/deafhistory/shorter.htm
Helping to Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities
International Deaf Education and Leadership (IDEAL)
http://realideal.org/
Give Back To Community- Zambia (GBCZ)
https://www.gbczambia.org/?fbclid=IwAR1zk4M0LLekfgox4XNlwtL7bqZAaut5wWf4El_zwKqvJyg9YrIdi0V1qB4
Sports
Silent Dreams
Since childhood it was this Deaf basketball player's "Silent Dream" to play with hearing players on a professional basketball team. In 2004 Osei Morris was the first Deaf African American to play in the American Basketball Association (ABA) with the "LA-Stars." Osei narrates his once in a lifetime experience. This mini-doc was shot by a deaf female filmmaker and edited by a student editor; it is voiced and captioned.
Black Deaf Collective Information
Black Deaf Culture Through the Lens of Black Deaf History
By Benro Ogunyipe, Former NBDA President 2011-2013
https://dcmp.org/learn/366-black-deaf-culture-through-the-lens-of-black-deaf-history
ASUW Student Disability Commission
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mogaPT5QYdElwJ1hvWxyNCL97R32z9FsRYs8qfbWpBE/mobilebasic
Black Deaf Center
Center for Black Deaf Studies- Gallaudet University
https://gallyshare.com/center-for-black-deaf-studies/
Black American Sign Language
‘ASL Bae’: Get to know Black ASL interpreter Billy Sanders
Celebrating and preserving Black American Sign Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCdz3Y_EdI&feature=share
The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure (Book & DVD) (2011) (paperback 2020)
Chapter 1
Remaining Chapters:
Chapter 2-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0NsvzErLk&t=653s
Chapter 3- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFnyGfZXIk
Chapter 4- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q--bh84vxLw
Chapter 5- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayyjje3r1bY
Chapter 6- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5yhx7PNPQk
Chapter 7- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYjZPqoHlYU
Chapter 8- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkmzZI3DI3Y
Chapter 9- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wSNgY5QQhU
Publications/Media By & About Black Deaf Communities
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Class of ‘52 (Video) (1990)
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Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South (1999)
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God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe No. 24 (2000)
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Far from Home: Memories of World War II and Afterward (2005)
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Nathie - No Hand Me Downs (DVD) (2005)
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Still I Rise: The Enduring Legacy of Black Deaf Arkansans Before & After Integration (DVD and Booklet) (2006)
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Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson (2007)
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In spite of Obstacles: A History of the West Virginia Schools for the Colored Deaf and Blind (2001)
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The Segregated Georgia School for the Deaf 1882-1975 (2015)