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Signos Americana para Personas Negras y la Indemnizaci\u00f3n <\/h1><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>Campus y Cultura<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mpobpbro-8b7fc8e58079dc1ba596b9b8689d0e5c\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-mpobpbro-8b7fc8e58079dc1ba596b9b8689d0e5c .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:12px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mpobpbro-8b7fc8e58079dc1ba596b9b8689d0e5c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em>Por: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daniel Espinosa Santillana<\/span><br \/>\nFoto: @<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sou.spanish<\/span> on Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mpobskih-59274c27dca68a787a9ce6e3539b7b19\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-mpobskih-59274c27dca68a787a9ce6e3539b7b19 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mpobskih-59274c27dca68a787a9ce6e3539b7b19 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>A primera vista, podr\u00eda parecer solo una noche cultural m\u00e1s en el campus. Pero en realidad, este encuentro abre la puerta a una historia compleja donde se cruzan el amor, la discriminaci\u00f3n, el lenguaje y la resistencia. Para entenderlo mejor, hay que mirar tanto la pel\u00edcula como el contexto hist\u00f3rico que la rodea.<\/p>\n<p><em>Compensation<\/em>, dirigida por Zeinabu Irene Davis, es una obra pionera del cine independiente estadounidense que retrata con sensibilidad la vida de personas afroamericanas sordas a lo largo del siglo XX. La pel\u00edcula presenta dos historias paralelas ambientadas en Chicago: una en la d\u00e9cada de 1910 y otra ochenta a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s. En ambas, Michelle A. Banks y John Earl Jelks interpretan a parejas que viven distintas formas de amor y lucha: una costurera educada y un migrante analfabeta en la primera \u00e9poca, y una artista gr\u00e1fica y un bibliotecario en la segunda.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e1s all\u00e1 de sus historias rom\u00e1nticas, la pel\u00edcula se destaca por su forma de contar. Davis combina fotograf\u00eda de archivo, una banda sonora original que mezcla ragtime con percusi\u00f3n africana, y una edici\u00f3n po\u00e9tica que entrelaza ambas l\u00edneas temporales. El resultado es una narrativa visual que explora c\u00f3mo las fuerzas sociales y los prejuicios afectan el amor, la identidad y la posibilidad de ser visto y comprendido.<\/p>\n<p>Pero detr\u00e1s de estas historias tambi\u00e9n hay una realidad hist\u00f3rica m\u00e1s amplia: la evoluci\u00f3n del lenguaje de se\u00f1as y el impacto del racismo y la segregaci\u00f3n en la educaci\u00f3n de personas sordas.<\/p>\n<p>Durante los siglos XVIII y XIX, existi\u00f3 lo que muchos consideran la \u201cEdad de Oro\u201d de la educaci\u00f3n para personas sordas, cuando el lenguaje de se\u00f1as era ampliamente utilizado en las escuelas. Sin embargo, todo cambi\u00f3 con el Congreso de Mil\u00e1n de 1880, un evento que redefini\u00f3 la educaci\u00f3n sorda a nivel mundial.<\/p>\n<p>El Congreso de Mil\u00e1n, oficialmente el Segundo Congreso Internacional sobre la Educaci\u00f3n de los Sordos, fue celebrado del 6 al 11 de septiembre de 1880 en Italia. A pesar de su nombre, fue el primer gran encuentro internacional de educadores de personas sordas. Sus resoluciones marcaron un antes y un despu\u00e9s: se declar\u00f3 la superioridad del m\u00e9todo oral sobre el uso de la lengua de se\u00f1as, promoviendo su prohibici\u00f3n en las escuelas. Entre sus resoluciones principales se afirmaba que la articulaci\u00f3n oral era superior a los signos para integrar a las personas sordas a la sociedad, y que el uso del lenguaje de se\u00f1as da\u00f1aba el desarrollo del habla y la claridad del pensamiento. Como resultado, muchas escuelas en Europa y Estados Unidos adoptaron el oralismo como \u00fanico m\u00e9todo educativo, eliminando el lenguaje de se\u00f1as de las aulas.<\/p>\n<p>Las consecuencias fueron profundas. Muchos estudiantes sordos perdieron acceso a su lengua natural, y al mismo tiempo disminuy\u00f3 la presencia de maestros, escritores, artistas y profesionales sordos dentro de sus propias comunidades. Este periodo es frecuentemente recordado como una etapa de p\u00e9rdida cultural y exclusi\u00f3n educativa.<\/p>\n<p>Sin embargo, en medio de este cambio, otro fen\u00f3meno ocurri\u00f3 en Estados Unidos: la segregaci\u00f3n racial tambi\u00e9n moldeaba el sistema educativo. Mientras las escuelas para estudiantes blancos sordos prohib\u00edan el uso de se\u00f1as, muchas escuelas residenciales para estudiantes negros sordos, frecuentemente con menos recursos y poca supervisi\u00f3n, se convirtieron en espacios donde el lenguaje de se\u00f1as sobrevivi\u00f3 y se transmiti\u00f3 de generaci\u00f3n en generaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>De esta realidad naci\u00f3 lo que hoy se conoce como Black ASL. M\u00e1s que una variante ling\u00fc\u00edstica, es una expresi\u00f3n cultural que refleja la historia de comunidades afroamericanas sordas que, enfrentando discriminaci\u00f3n doble por raza y por discapacidad, preservaron y desarrollaron su propia forma de comunicaci\u00f3n dentro de sistemas que intentaban uniformar o eliminar su lenguaje.<\/p>\n<p>Con el paso del tiempo, el impacto del Congreso de Mil\u00e1n fue ampliamente cuestionado. En 2010, durante el 21st International Congress on Education of the Deaf en Vancouver, Canad\u00e1, se emiti\u00f3 una disculpa formal reconociendo que la prohibici\u00f3n del lenguaje de se\u00f1as represent\u00f3 una forma de discriminaci\u00f3n y una violaci\u00f3n de derechos humanos.<\/p>\n<p>Hoy, eventos como el de SOU permiten volver a abrir estas conversaciones desde una perspectiva m\u00e1s consciente. Bajo la coordinaci\u00f3n de Raquel Am\u00e9zquita, encargada del Club de ASL, este encuentro busca no solo educar sobre una variante ling\u00fc\u00edstica, sino honrar la historia de la comunidad sorda afroamericana. <em>Compensation<\/em> no solo cuenta historias de amor entre personas sordas afroamericanas; tambi\u00e9n muestra c\u00f3mo el lenguaje, la clase social, la educaci\u00f3n y la raza se entrelazan en experiencias humanas profundamente complejas.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mpobt0vd-af8389b44ca2cbc64a2d5306a8fc3b4c\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-mpobt0vd-af8389b44ca2cbc64a2d5306a8fc3b4c .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mpobt0vd-af8389b44ca2cbc64a2d5306a8fc3b4c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock rising-quote'  itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p class=\"dig-4\" style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;El lenguaje nunca es solo comunicaci\u00f3n: es memoria, identidad y supervivencia&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mpobtgop-c588a59d670415380c13b47ad19fd726\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-mpobtgop-c588a59d670415380c13b47ad19fd726 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mpobtgop-c588a59d670415380c13b47ad19fd726 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Al final, esta noche de cine y di\u00e1logo no se trata \u00fanicamente de ver una pel\u00edcula. Se trata de reconocer que detr\u00e1s del lenguaje de se\u00f1as hay una historia de resistencia cultural, de comunidades que preservaron su identidad en medio de pol\u00edticas qu intentaron borrarla, y de un lenguaje que sigue siendo, hasta hoy, una forma viva de historia.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1q8b8ggo-27cce4e5830a083d083707fff9c6194f\">\n.flex_cell.av-1q8b8ggo-27cce4e5830a083d083707fff9c6194f{\nvertical-align:top;\n}\n.responsive #top #wrap_all .flex_cell.av-1q8b8ggo-27cce4e5830a083d083707fff9c6194f{\npadding:0 50px 30px 30px !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_cell av-1q8b8ggo-27cce4e5830a083d083707fff9c6194f av-gridrow-cell av_one_half no_margin  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_cell_one_half  avia-builder-el-last '  ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mpobu0u2-645e41573515abbce8c50dbad0e5a478\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-mpobu0u2-645e41573515abbce8c50dbad0e5a478{\npadding-bottom:0;\nfont-size:24px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-mpobu0u2-645e41573515abbce8c50dbad0e5a478 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-mpobu0u2-645e41573515abbce8c50dbad0e5a478 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:24px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-mpobu0u2-645e41573515abbce8c50dbad0e5a478 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:18px;\ncolor:#404040;\n}\n\n@media only screen and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 767px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-mpobu0u2-645e41573515abbce8c50dbad0e5a478 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n\n@media only screen and (max-width: 479px){ \n#top #wrap_all .av-special-heading.av-mpobu0u2-645e41573515abbce8c50dbad0e5a478 .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:0.8em;\n}\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-mpobu0u2-645e41573515abbce8c50dbad0e5a478 av-special-heading-h1 custom-color-heading blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-16  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  top-30 av-inherit-size av-linked-heading'><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Hands, History, and Identity: The Story Behind Black ASL and <em>Compensation<\/em><\/h1><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_below'><p>Campus &amp; Culture<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-5ulk1zs-5110da1b79f6fe78bd2eb3f5ac6ec308\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-5ulk1zs-5110da1b79f6fe78bd2eb3f5ac6ec308 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:12px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-5ulk1zs-5110da1b79f6fe78bd2eb3f5ac6ec308 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><em>By: <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daniel Espinosa<\/span><br \/>\nPhoto: @<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sou.spanish <\/span>on Instagram<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mpobw3mz-d809e92025f9b88a52068db988850353\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-mpobw3mz-d809e92025f9b88a52068db988850353 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mpobw3mz-d809e92025f9b88a52068db988850353 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>At first glance, it might seem like just another cultural event on campus. But in reality, this gathering opens the door to a complex story where love, discrimination, language, and resistance intersect. To better understand it, one must consider both the film and the historical context surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Compensation<\/em>, directed by Zeinabu Irene Davis, is a pioneering work of American independent cinema that sensitively portrays the lives of deaf African Americans throughout the 20th century. The film presents two parallel stories set in Chicago: one in the 1910s and another eighty years later. In both, Michelle A. Banks and John Earl Jelks play couples experiencing different forms of love and struggle: an educated seamstress and an illiterate migrant in the first era, and a graphic artist and a librarian in the second. Beyond its romantic stories, the film stands out for its storytelling style. Davis combines archival footage, an original soundtrack that blends ragtime with African percussion, and poetic editing that interweaves the two timelines. The result is a visual narrative that explores how social forces and prejudice affect love, identity, and the possibility of being seen and understood. But behind these stories lies a broader historical reality: the evolution of sign language and the impact of racism and segregation on the education of deaf people.<\/p>\n<p>During the 18th and 19th centuries, there was what many consider the \u201cGolden Age\u201d of education for the deaf, when sign language was widely used in schools. However, everything changed with the 1880 Milan Congress, an event that redefined deaf education worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Milan Congress, officially the Second International Congress on the Education of the Deaf, was held from September 6 to 11, 1880, in Italy. Despite its name, it was the first major international gathering of educators of the deaf. Its resolutions marked a turning point: the superiority of the oral method over the use of sign language was declared, promoting its prohibition in schools. Among its main resolutions, it was asserted that oral articulation was superior to signs for integrating deaf people into society, and that the use of sign language hindered speech development and clarity of thought. As a result, many schools in Europe and the United States adopted oralism as the sole educational method, eliminating sign language from classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The consequences were profound. Many deaf students lost access to their natural language, and at the same time, the presence of deaf teachers, writers, artists, and professionals within their own communities declined. This period is often remembered as a time of cultural loss and educational exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>However, amid this shift, another phenomenon occurred in the United States: racial segregation was also shaping the educational system. While schools for white deaf students prohibited the use of sign language, many residential schools for Black deaf students often with fewer resources and little supervision became spaces where sign language survived and was passed down from generation to generation.<\/p>\n<p>From this reality emerged what is now known as Black ASL. More than a linguistic variant, it is a cultural expression that reflects the history of African American Deaf communities who, facing double discrimination based on race and disability, preserved and developed their own form of communication within systems that sought to standardize or eliminate their language.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, the impact of the Milan Congress came under widespread scrutiny. In 2010, during the 21st International Congress on Education of the Deaf in Vancouver, Canada, a formal apology was issued acknowledging that the ban on sign language constituted a form of discrimination and a violation of human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Today, events like the one at SOU allow us to reopen these conversations from a more informed perspective. Coordinated by Raquel Am\u00e9zquita, head of the ASL Club, this gathering aims not only to educate about a linguistic variant but also to honor the history of the African American Deaf community. <em>Compensation<\/em> not only tells stories of love among African American Deaf people; it also shows how language, social class, education, and race intertwine in deeply complex human experiences.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mpobzq3n-a40522ca239dd9cdaa53c33ed72e374b\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-mpobzq3n-a40522ca239dd9cdaa53c33ed72e374b .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:26px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mpobzq3n-a40522ca239dd9cdaa53c33ed72e374b '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock rising-quote'  itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p class=\"dig-4\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cLanguage is never just communication; it is memory, identity, and survival.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mpobzhuy-402a5790236b286fee35065649c57b8a\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-mpobzhuy-402a5790236b286fee35065649c57b8a .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mpobzhuy-402a5790236b286fee35065649c57b8a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Ultimately, this evening of film and dialogue is not just about watching a movie. It is about recognizing that behind sign language lies a history of cultural resistance, of communities that preserved their identity amid policies that sought to erase it, and of a language that remains, to this day, a living form of history.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><div id='after_grid_row_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-104600'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div  class='flex_column av-vjxxli0-7f2caa65a675d30ad8ed7d1661807bcf av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-21  el_after_av_layout_row  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div  '     ><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-r3l6o0o-4e8f3b322315abffd5eaffe6636be741 av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-22  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  flex_column_div  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kos55i0-2fd3f4d26cb1046d587d424f5e3c46c6\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-kos55i0-2fd3f4d26cb1046d587d424f5e3c46c6 .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kos55i0-2fd3f4d26cb1046d587d424f5e3c46c6 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>You can stay up-to-date with all of the exciting things happening in our program by following the Spanish Program on Instagram (@sou.spanish) or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Spanish-Program-at-SOU\/61559317186574\/?sk=about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interested in being featured on the Spanish Program blog? 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