Al Lucas

Black American Sign Language Black American Sign Language Dialect of American Sign Language "BASL" redirects here. For another use, see Bar Association of Sri Lanka. Black American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL)[2] used most commonly by deaf Black Americans in the United States. The divergence from ASL was influenced largely by the segregation of schools in the American South. Like other schools at the time, schools for the deaf were segregated based upon race, creating two language communities among deaf signers: Black deaf signers at Black schools and White deaf signers at White schools. As of the mid-2010s,[update] BASL is still used by signers in the South despite public…

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