Abstract
Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White (2012) tells the story of her Argentinian family’s 1961 immigration to the small town of Marion, Alabama. This chapter draws on Leslie Bow’s concept of “third race” to explore Weaver’s graphic memoir of her family’s racial ambiguity in the segregated South and analyzes the multiple ways in which Darkroom embeds photography in the illustrations and narrative, from Weaver’s reproduction of famous Civil Rights photographs to the family photo album’s role in immigrant memory, to explore Lila’s growing racial awareness. Weaver’s graphic attention to photography in order to thematize the politics of the racialized gaze ultimately transcends the boundaries between old and new countries, individual and collective narratives, and realistic and artistic representations to offer a new way of seeing her immigrant experience.
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