Lila Quintero Weaver
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This event is being presented virtually.
Go behind the scenes of a graphic memoir, 50 years in the making, and get a glimpse of an alternate interpretation of the Jim Crow era. Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White is primarily about immigration and race, but also about a shy girl who arrives in America knowing no English. She grows up in a house where Argentine culture is kept alive through food, music, and letters from the home country.
Weaver is that shy young girl. For her, the cultural clash was short-lived, as she adapted to the language and customs of her new home in the U.S. However, she never could swallow the racial attitudes of the Deep South. Her discomfort with segregationist views grew as the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum and eventually led to an urgent need to take a stand.
This virtual presentation is co-hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Stout and is made possible with technology assistance from L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library.
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LILA QUINTERO WEAVER is the author-illustrator of the graphic novel Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White, which details her family’s 1961 immigration from Argentina to the racially torn American South. As a documentarian of the immigrant experience, Weaver has lectured at college campuses across the United States and exhibited original art at numerous institutions, including Whitman College, the University of Richmond, Levine Museum of the New South, The Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and The Rosa Parks Museum.
Learn more about Lila Quintero Weaver at lilaqweaver.com.
