Whiteness in Lila Quintero Weaver’s “Darkroom”

Matthew Teutsch
13 min readMar 13, 2022

A couple of years ago, a student told me about on of her classes where the professor was using Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White in the course. The student told me about Weaver’s book, and I immediately became interested in reading it. Finally, I picked up a copy and read it. In Darkroom, Weaver details her family’s experiences during the Civil Right Movement on Marion, Alabama…

Matthew Teutsch

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