General Resources and Information

(history, culture, politics, linguistics, etc.)

Online Resources

http://www.deafe.org – Home page of Deaf Empowerment. They have a great resources page with links to all sorts of useful stuff. Very comprehensive.
http://www.deaflibrary.org/asl.html – Information about ASL linguistics, ASL’s status as a foreign language, ASL dictionaries, and other ASL resources.
http://www.bu.edu/asllrp – The American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project at Boston University
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/asl.asp – National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (part of the National Institute of Health)
http://www.aslinfo.com – General site with ASL information.
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/asl.html – Yamada Language Center at the University of Oregon
http://www.deaflinx.com – Good general info
http://www.ntid.rit.edu/terpref/index.htm – The National Technical Institute for the Deaf has a search engine/index that’s really handy for finding info on ASL, Deaf culture, etc.

Linguistics of American Sign Language: an introduction, Clayton Valli, Ceil Lucas
American Deaf Culture: An Anthology, Sherman Wilcox
Pinky extension and eye gaze : language use in deaf communities, Ceil Lucas, editor
Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture, Carol Padden and Tom Humphries
Grammar, Gesture and Meaning in American Sign Language, Scott Liddell
Inside Deaf Culture, Carol Padden, Tom Humphries
Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks
Constructing Deafness, Gregory and Hartley
The Mask of Benevolence, Harlan Lane
The Politics of Deafness, Owen Wrigley
Deaf Empowerment: Emergence, Struggle and Rhetoric, Katherine Jankowski
Lend Me Your Ear, Brenda Jo Brueggeman
Language, gesture, and space, edited by Karen Emmorey, Judy S. Reilly
For hearing people only : answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about the Deaf community, its culture, and the "Deaf reality", Matthew S. Moore and Linda Levitan
Deaf world : a historical reader and primary sourcebook, edited by Lois Bragg
When the mind hears : a history of the deaf , Harlan Lane