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Ragusa (born February 25, 1966) is an American writer and documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York.Table of ContentsEarly life and education[edit]References[edit]Further reading[edit]External links[edit]Early life and education[edit]Ragusa was born in Manhattan, New York, to an Italian-American father and an African-American mother. Her paternal grandparents were immigrants from Messina; her maternal ancestors were brought to the United States as slaves.[1] She spent much of her childhood living alternately with her maternal grandparents in Harlem and her paternal grandparents in Maplewood, New Jersey.[2]After attending public schools, Ragusa earned an M.A. in Media from the New School for Social Research.[1] She also studied creative writing at Hunter College, where she was a student of Louise DeSalvo.[3]Ragusa directed two award-winning short documentary films, Passing (1995) and Fuori\/Outside (1997).[3] Her other films include Demarcations, Threads of Memory, and Remembering the Triangle Fire.[2]Her memoir, The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging (W. W. Norton & Co., 2006), was a finalist for the 2007 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for nonfiction,[4] and has been well received by critics.[5][6][7][8] An Italian-language edition, La pelle che ci separa, was published in 2008.[9] Her writing has also appeared in anthologies, such as The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture (2003),[10]Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo (2014),[11] and Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America (2012).[12]Much of Ragusa’s artistic work explores themes of racial identity and belonging. In the foreword to Olive Grrrls: Italian North American Women & The Search For Identity (2013), Ragusa describes her uneasiness with pat answers to the question, “What are you?” and concludes that “No identity is singular, clear-cut, fixed; each is situated in histories and in daily lives that are endlessly complex.”[13]Ragusa has taught Writing and Film Studies at Eugene Lang College and the City University of New York.[1]References[edit]^ a b c “Kym Ragusa” (PDF). University of Minnesota. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 10, 2015.^ a b c “Ragusa, Kym”. Encyclopedia.com. Gale. 2009.^ a b Tenzer, Livia (2002). “Documenting Race and Gender: Kym Ragusa Discusses ‘Passing’ and ‘Fuori\/Outside’“. Women’s Studies Quarterly. 30 (1\/2): 213\u2013220. JSTOR\u00a040004647.^ “Kym Ragusa”. Hurston\/Wright Foundation. Retrieved December 26, 2017.^ “Review of The Skin Between Us“. Kirkus Reviews. May 8, 2006. Retrieved December 26, 2017.^ “Review of The Skin Between Us“. Publishers Weekly.^ Antonucci, Clara (2008). “Review of The Skin Between Us“. Italian Americana. 26 (1): 110\u2013111. JSTOR\u00a041353782.^ Gennari, John (2017). “The Sounds and the Fury”. Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge. University of Chicago Press. pp.\u00a0227\u2013233. ISBN\u00a09780226428468. Ragusa’s memoir is exquisitely poignant, lyrical, and most of all\u2014soundful: it demands a hearing from its readers.^ Baldo, Michela (2014). “Painful Italianness: Translating the (post)migrant female body”. Academia.edu. Retrieved December 26, 2017.^ DeSalvo, Louise; Giunta, Edvige, eds. (August 2003). “Baked Ziti”. The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture. Feminist Press at CUNY. pp.\u00a0276\u2013284. ISBN\u00a09781558614536.^ Caronia, Nancy; Giunta, Edvige, eds. (2014). “On Vulnerability and Risk: Learning to Write and Teach Memoir as a Student of Louise DeSalvo”. Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo. Fordham University Press. pp.\u00a0105\u2013110. ISBN\u00a09780823262274.^ Guglielmo, Jennifer, ed. (2012). “Sangu du Sangu: Growing Up Black and Italian in a Time of White Flight”. Are Italians White? How Race is Made in America. Routledge. pp.\u00a0213\u2013223. ISBN\u00a09781136062421.^ Ragusa, Kym (2013). “Foreword”.  In Greco, Lachrista (ed.). Olive Grrrls: Italian North American Women & The Search For Identity. Olive Grrrl Press.^ a b “Kym Ragusa”. Mixed Race Studies.Further reading[edit]Giunta, Edvige (1999). “Figuring Race: Kym Ragusa’s fuori\/outside“.  In Ashyk, Daniel; Gardaph\u00e9, Fred L.; Tamburri, Anthony Julian (eds.). Shades of Black and White: Conflict and Collaboration Between Two Communities. Italian American Studies Association. pp.\u00a0262\u2013274. ISBN\u00a0978-0934675437.Greene, Shelleen, ed. (2012). “fuori\/outside: Gender, Race, and the Italian\/African American Experience”. Equivocal Subjects: Between Italy and Africa — Constructions of Racial and National Identity in the Italian Cinema. A&C Black. pp.\u00a0181\u2013184. ISBN\u00a09781441190437.Perez, Hiram. “‘It’s Just Dark Outside’: Kym Ragusa’s Memoirs of White Flight”. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, October 12, 2006.External links[edit]"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/kym-ragusa-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Kym Ragusa – Wikipedia"}}]}]