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050 00 $aF128.9.A1$bR345 2006
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100 1 $aRagusa, Kym.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97026859
245 14 $aThe skin between us :$ba memoir of race, beauty, and belonging /$cKym Ragusa.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $a238 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Kym Ragusa's stunningly beautiful, brilliant African American mother turned heads as she strolled the streets of West Harlem. Ragusa's white, working class, Sicilian American father, who grew up only a few streets away in Italian East Harlem, had never seen anything like her. At home, their families despaired at the match, while in the streets the couple faced taunting threats from a city still racially divided." "From their volatile, short-lived pairing came a sensitive child with a filmmaker's observant eye and the intangible gifts of a writer. Both Italian American and African American, she struggled to find a place for herself as she grew, and, in this book, she brings to life the two families and the warring, but ultimately similar, communities that defined her." "At the center of the memoir are Ragusa's two powerful grandmothers, who gave her the love and stability to grow into her own skin. Eventually, their shared care for their granddaughter forced them to overcome their prejudices. East and West Harlem, the Bronx and suburban New Jersey, rent parties and religious feste, baked yams and baked ziti - all come to life in Ragusa's sensuous memories and lyrical prose, as she evokes the joy, the pain, and the inexhaustible richness of a racially and culturally mixed heritage."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aRagusa, Kym$xChildhood and youth.
650 0 $aRacially mixed people$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography.
650 0 $aGrandmothers$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vBiography.
650 0 $aFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)$xSocial aspects$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zNew York (State)$zNew York.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100331
650 0 $aItalian Americans$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
651 0 $aHarlem (New York, N.Y.)$xRace relations.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xRace relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116330
651 0 $aHarlem (New York, N.Y.)$vBiography.
651 0 $aNew York (N.Y.)$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108454
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip064/2005033673.html
852 00 $bglx$hF128.9.A1$iR345 2006
852 00 $bbar$hF128.9.A1$iR345 2006