Contents Author's Note Prologue: Home Movies Chapter 1: In the Dark Chapter 2: Passage Chapter 3: Blending In Chatper 4: Ginnyu2019s 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 Nightu2019s Journey into Day Acknowledgements
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.
"Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its
truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past
and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These
stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl
who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and
immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue.
This is a book--about maturation, family, education, and social
change--every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should
experience."--Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife, Four
Spirits, and Adam Eve
"A vivid, insightful, and moving illustrated graphic memoir by
Weaver, who emigrated from Argentina to the American South as a
young girl in 1961, recounting her impressions of her family's new
and unexpected life in racist, rural Alabama during the civil
rights movement. In beautiful gray-shaded drawings, Weaver depicts
the reality of the segregated and newly integrated South and her
struggle to position herself as an ally to her black classmates,
only to find that it's a path fraught with pitfalls from both sides
of the divide."--Publishers Weekly
"A truly incredible look at the civil rights movement. Darkroom
offers a double view of that movement. A gem."
--Nikki Giovanni, author of Gemini and On My Journey Now
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