02669nam 2200589 a 450 991046348710332120200520144314.00-8173-8619-X(CKB)3170000000046153(EBL)860292(OCoLC)776108969(SSID)ssj0000585482(PQKBManifestationID)11382397(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000585482(PQKBWorkID)10581553(PQKB)10862645(MiAaPQ)EBC860292(MdBmJHUP)muse27060(Au-PeEL)EBL860292(CaPaEBR)ebr10556750(EXLCZ)99317000000004615320110908d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDarkroom[electronic resource] a memoir in black and white /Lila Quintero WeaverTuscaloosa University of Alabama Press20121 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-5714-9 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; AcknowledgementsDarkroom: 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 inhabitCivil rights movementsAlabamaHistory20th centuryArgentine AmericansAlabamaBiographyAlabamaSocial conditions20th centuryAlabamaRace relationsHistory20th centuryAlabamaBiographyElectronic books.Civil rights movementsHistoryArgentine Americans976.1092BWeaver Lila Quintero1039780MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463487103321Darkroom2470689UNINA