She’s Gettin’ Her Learn On

Wynette, a tall, strikingly pretty African American with light brown eyes, dressed in a white sleeveless blouse and black cutoffs, flips through the twelve photographs she has taken of groups of friends. Wynette sighs before she begins to talk about the photos that she takes. As she puts it, “I took all of these pictures to tell you about the stuff I went through in school.” She begins by telling me how she winds up at a number of “terrible schools.” Her father, a single dad of two, moves the family quite often before finally settling on Los Angeles, where