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Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White

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Availability:In StockContributor:Lila Quintero WeaverPublish date:2012-03-01Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Alabama PressISBN-13:9780817357146ISBN-10:817357149UPC:9780817357146Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Subcategory:Women, Nonfiction, Personal MemoirsAward:2012 Cybils Finalist - Graphic Novel/YA AwardSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCSG2A0EQV
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Alabama PressISBN-13:9780817357146ISBN-10:817357149UPC:9780817357146Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Comics & Graphic NovelsBook Subcategory:Women, Nonfiction, Personal MemoirsAward:2012 Cybils Finalist - Graphic Novel/YA AwardSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCSG2A0EQV

Lila 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.
Publisher: University Alabama Press

Awards

🏆 2012 Cybils Finalist - Graphic Novel/YA Award

Edition

First Edition, Edition

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