Description: Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is an arresting and moving personal story about childhood, race, and identity in the American South, rendered in stunning illustrations by the author, Lila Quintero Weaver. In 1961, when Lila was five, she and her family emigrated from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Marion, Alabama, in the heart of Alabama’s Black Belt. As educated, middle-class Latino immigrants in a region that was defined by segregation, the Quinteros occupied a privileged vantage from which to view the racially charged culture they inhabited. Weaver and her family were firsthand witnesses to key moments in the civil rights movement. But Darkroom is her personal story as well: chronicling what it was like being a Latina girl in the Jim Crow South, struggling to understand both a foreign country and the horrors of our nation’s race relations. Weaver, who was neither black nor white, observed very early on the inequalities in the American culture, with its blonde and blue-eyed feminine ideal. Throughout her life, Lila has struggled to find her place in this society and fought against the discrimination around her.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Type: Textbook
Features: Illustrated
Original Language: English
Edition: 2
Book Title: Darkroom : a Memoir in Black and White
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication Year: 2012
Topic: Women, Sociology / General, Nonfiction / General, Personal Memoirs, Civil Rights, General
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Comics & Graphic Novels, Political Science
Item Weight: 16.9 Oz
Author: Lila Quintero Weaver
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
