Reframing the Past could also be called Re-Reading the Family Album. From 1984 to 1994, much of my work centered on a re-investigation and re-evaluation of my family album of which I had been the "keeper" as a young person growing up in the blue collar black neighborhood of Halls Hill in the Arlington, Virginia of the 1950s. Keeping up the family album was, for me, a reaction to all the negative stereotypes about black people that were published in the Washington area daily newspapers. Back then I was trying to make a book containing positive images of our family, but it was based on the stereotype of the white American family.