Family History Memory: Recording African American Life

Photographer, archivist, and curator Willis has assembled photo quilts, photographs, and essays that have been previously published in edited volumes, exhibition catalogs, and monographs. It is the first time her own photographs have been published as a collection. Most of them depict the African American community in such contexts as beauty, cancer diaries, city scenes, shotgun houses, and Hip Hop but one section deals with Palestine. The essays discuss family, history, and memory. There is no index. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)