Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is an autobiographical comic set during the Civil Rights Movement written by American author Lila Quintero Weaver.[1][2] It was published on 31 March 2012.[3][4][5] The graphic novel explores issues of immigrant identity that was based on the author's life.[6]

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White
Page count254 pages
PublisherUniversity of Alabama Press
Original publication
Published in03/01/2012
Issues1
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780817357146

Overview

In 1961, Lila immigrates with her family from Buenos Aires to live in Marion, Alabama. The comic book describes[7][8] her experience growing up as a Latina immigrant during the integration period immediately following the outlawing of Jim Crow laws in the Southern United States.[9] She describes her feelings about growing up in a town with racial tension that she didn't know where exactly she belonged and about her personal fight against the racial discrimination surrounding her.[10][11] She also writes her personal account of the night of the Jimmie Lee Jackson murder which took place near her home. The graphic novel analyzes the connections between race, identity, immigration, and growing up in the United States.[12]

The author was nominated for the 2012 Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent for this work.[13]

See also

References
  1. "Author Explores Connections Between Immigration, Race". www.samford.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  2. "Quintero Weaver, Lila | thelatinoauthor.com". thelatinoauthor.com. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  3. "lila q weaver". lila q weaver. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  4. "Darkroom". Goodreads. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  5. Janis Breckenridge and Madelyn Peterson (1978). "Lila Quintero Weaver's Darkroom: a memoir in black and white: Envisioning Equality". Confluencia. 72 (2): 107–108. JSTOR 4349000.
  6. Breckenridge, Janis; Peterson, Madelyn (2013). "Lila Quintero Weaver's "Darkroom: a memoir in black and white": Envisioning Equality". Confluencia. 29 (1): 109–125. JSTOR 43490009.
  7. "Lila Quintero Weaver's 'Darkroom': The Jim Crow South Through an Immigrant's Eyes". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  8. "Powerful Images Recollected in Tranquility | Public Books". www.publicbooks.org. 2012-07-18. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  9. "Darkroom - University of Alabama Press". www.uapress.ua.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  10. "Comics Herstory: Lila Quintero Weaver". Graphic Policy. 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  11. "Book review: 'Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White'". AL.com. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  12. "[Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White]". C-SPAN.org. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  13. "Ignatz Awards 2012". Retrieved 18 April 2017.
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