Building on long-standing quilting practices of African American women, Deborah Willis’s innovative combining of photography, text, and fabric poignantly connects form and content to address familial narratives within broader histories of racial oppression in the United States. In Sisters, Willis repeatedly reprints a 1955 snapshot made by her father that lovingly depicts his two smiling daughters. While Willis holds a Black doll, her sister holds a White doll. On the lowest panels, Willis has inscribed prompts used by Drs. Mamie and Kenneth Clark during their groundbreaking 1940s studies of the psychological effects of segregation and racism on Black children.