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.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	264
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	University Alabama Press
Fecha de Publicación	2012-03-01
Dimensiones	9.2" x 6.1" x 0.9" pulgadas
Descripción de Edición	First Edition,
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	Si
Temas	Femenino, Estudios Hispanos/Latinos, Latino
Premios	Cybils 2012 (Finalist)

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.