{"id":8755,"date":"2010-09-05T01:38:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T01:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8755"},"modified":"2010-09-05T01:38:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T01:38:16","slug":"voices-from-the-gaps-kym-ragusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8755","title":{"rendered":"Voices from the Gaps: Kym Ragusa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voices from the Gaps: Kym Ragusa<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Voices from the Gaps<\/a>
\nUniversity of Minnesota
\n2007-04-24<\/p>\n

Shalee Dettmann
\nJoey Grihalva<\/a>
\nJenna Fodness<\/a>
\nGaushia Thao<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t know where I was conceived, but I was made in Harlem<\/a>. Its topography is mapped on my body: the borderlines between neighborhoods marked by streets that were forbidden to cross, the borderlines enforced by fear and anger, and transgressed by desire. The streets crossing east to west, north to south, like the web of veins beneath my skin.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Skin Between Us<\/a><\/em> (26)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the prologue of her acclaimed memoir, The Skin Between Us<\/em>, Kym Ragusa<\/a> writes of a journey she took in 1999 to her paternal ancestors’ home of Messina, Italy<\/a>. A year after the death of her two grandmothers\u2014the central figures in her personal life, each representing her Italian and African-American heritage respectively\u2014Ragusa embarks on a search for clues about her identity. This journey is symbolic of her artistic work as she is constantly involved in the formulation and explication of what it means to be multicultural.<\/p>\n

Kym Ragusa was born February of 1966 in Manhattan<\/a>, NY. Ragusa comes from a mixed background: her mother is African American and her father is Italian. Ragusa’s ancestors on her mother’s side were brought to the United States as African slaves…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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