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Commentary: "Sounds Like Home: Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South" by Mary Herring Wright

Mary Herring Wright (1924-2018) was a Black and Deaf writer and teacher who participated in the Black ASL Project, which researched the linguistic features that make Black ASL recognizable as a distinct variety of American Sign Language. Having attended the North Carolina School for the Colored Deaf and Blind (NCSCDB), Mary was deeply familiar with ‘Raleigh Sign Language’— a distinct North Carolina variety of Black American Sign Language primarily used by Black Deaf signers who has attended segregated schools for the deaf, making her position in the project invaluable. Her memoir, Sounds Like Home, mainly focuses on her school days at NCSCDB.

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