Darkroom [[electronic resource] ] : a memoir in black and white / / Lila Quintero Weaver

• Autore: Weaver Lila Quintero
• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.1092; B
• Soggetto topico: Civil rights movements - Alabama - History - 20th century; Argentine Americans - Alabama
• Soggetto geografico: Alabama Social conditions 20th century; Alabama Race relations History 20th century; Alabama Biography
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Darkroom
• ISBN: 0-8173-8619-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463487103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II