02635nam 2200577 a 450 991078826250332120230126211306.00-8173-8619-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 centuryAlabamaBiographyCivil rights movementsHistoryArgentine Americans976.1092BWeaver Lila Quintero1579096MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788262503321Darkroom3858937UNINA