Skin Between Us A Memoir of Race Beauty and Belonging

Name: Skin Between Us A Memoir of Race Beauty and Belonging
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ISBN: 9780393058901

ISBN-10: 0393058905

ISBN-13: 9780393058901

Edition: 2006

Authors: Kym Ragusa

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A memoir of astonishing delicacy and strength about race and physical beauty. Kym Ragusa's stunningly beautiful, brilliant black mother constantly turned heads as she strolled the streets of West Harlem. Ragusa's working-class white father, who grew up only a few streets (and an entire world) away in Italian East Harlem, had never seen anyone like her. At home their families despaired at the match, while in the streets the couple faced taunting threats from a city still racially dividedbut they were mesmerized by the differences between them. From their volatile, short-lived pairing came a sensitive child with a filmmaker's observant eye. Her two powerful grandmothers gave her the love…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.60" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Kym Ragusa is a writer and documentary filmmaker. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.