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OverviewDarkroom: 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lila WeaverPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Edition: 2nd ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9780817357146ISBN 10: 0817357149 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 30 March 2012 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents Author's Note Prologue: Home Movies Chapter 1: In the Dark Chapter 2: Passage Chapter 3: Blending In Chatper 4: Ginny\u2019s Books Chapter 5: Ancestral Lines Chapter 6: An American Education Chapter 7: Dear Argentina Chapter 8: Good News, Bad News Chapter 9: Know Alabama Chapter 10: School Lessons Epilogue: Long Night\u2019s Journey into Day AcknowledgementsReviews<p> A vivid, insightful, and moving illustrated graphic memoir by Weaver, who emigrated from Argentina to the American South as a young girl in 1961, recounting her impressions of her family's new and unexpected life in racist, rural Alabama during the civil rights movement. In beautiful gray-shaded drawings, Weaver depicts the reality of the segregated and newly integrated South and her struggle to position herself as an ally to her black classmates, only to find that it's a path fraught with pitfalls from both sides of the divide. --Publishers Weekly A truly incredible look at the civil rights movement. Darkroom offers a double view of that movement. A gem. <br> --Nikki Giovanni, author of Gemini and On My Journey Now Author InformationLila Quintero Weaver received her BA from New College at The University of Alabama. She and her husband,Paul, live in Northport, Alabama. Darkroom is her first book. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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