Darkroom : a memoir in black and white / Lila Quintero Weaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weaver, Lila Quintero.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--Alabama--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Argentine Americans--Alabama--Biography.

Argentine Americans.

Alabama--Social conditions--20th century.

Alabama.

Alabama--Race relations--History--20th century.

Alabama--Biography.

Weaver, Lila Quintero.

Genre:

Graphic novels.

Comics (Graphic works)

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 inhabit

Contents:

Contents; Prologue: Home Movies; Chapter 1: In the Dark; Chapter 2: Passage; Chapter 3: Blending In; Chapter 4: Ginny's 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's Journey into Day; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8619-X

OCLC:

776108969