Though most content will be contained here on the class website, if you're more inclined to read on your own, there are many options and resources out there (both online and in-print). Some great reading resources are:
"The American Sign Language Phrase Book", Lou Fant
"Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture", Carol Padden & Tom Humphries
"Inside Deaf Culture", Carol Padden & Tom Humphries
"A Journey into the Deaf World", Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, and Ben Bahan
"Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood", Paddy Ladd
"Train Go Sorry", Leah Hager Cohen
"Deaf Like Me", Thomas S. Spradley
"Deaf Culture Our Way", Roy Holcomb, Samuel Holcomb, and Tom Holcomb
"Learning About Deaf Culture: Deaf and Hearing Cultural Differences", Sign Enhancers https://youtu.be/ZDrNZuZ-Dr0
"What It's Like To Be Deaf", Al Jazeera https://youtu.be/0YcGev7B5AA
Plus many other online resources, trainings, worksops, seminars, and collegiate-level courses!
Just because a lot of content is out there doesn't mean it's been professionally curated and actually useful towards learning ASL, its grammar/sentence structure, and a respect for the language through a Deaf lens. YouTube, especially, is awash with ASL 1 students, children, and amateurs who have access to a computer, a webcam, and have 2 hands. This doesn't make them fluent, reliable models, or useful on your ASL Culture journey of discovery. They might actually be counter-productive, poor models, or provide information that is inconsistent, incorrect, or disrespectful of the American Deaf Community.
There are many ASL Dictionaries, "Do-It-Yourself" books, "ASL For Dummies", etc., as well as hours upon hours of YouTube videos. Before you buy another book (or spend your off-hours trapped in an endless YouTube black hole of ASL videos!), send me an email with the link or picture of the book and I will let you know if it's worth your time.