Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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A Profound Documentary, Little White Lie Follows a Woman’s Search for Her Identify The Village Voice New York, New York 2014-11-26 Diana Clarke In Woodstock, New York, at the end of the 20th century, Lacey Schwartz was raised in an affluent Jewish household where something was slightly off. Darker-skinned than her mother and father, Schwartz…
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Going to College and Learning You’re Black: The Moving Story of Little White Lie Vanity Fair Vanity Fair’s Hollywood 2014-11-25 Chase Quinn “You boys are black, and don’t you forget that.” From an early age I was taught that both my black identity and my white-Irish identity were important, and that I was never to…
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Could you imagine living your entire life not knowing your true ethnic background? Movie director Lacey Schwartz can. Watch her talk about her new film “Little White Lie” and more:
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A Secret Falls From the Family Tree, and a Girl’s Identity Branches Out The New York Times 2014-11-23 Ben Kenigsberg, Film Critic ‘Little White Lie,’ a Personal Documentary About Race The documentary “Little White Lie” would be provocative simply for what it says about race and identity. The director Lacey Schwartz grew up Jewish in…
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How a biracial woman grew up thinking she was white Vox 2014-11-19 Jenée Desmond-Harris When Lacey Schwartz was accepted to Georgetown University, the school saw her photo and passed her name along to the black student association. The organization contacted her. The only issue: Schwartz had grown up in a Jewish household in Woodstock New…
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To Tell the Truth: Alumna’s new film about family secrets to show at Boston film festival (video) Harvard Law Today Alumni Focus 2014-11-12 Lewis Rice Lacey Schwartz ’03 will return to Cambridge this weekend to speak about her new documentary “Little White Lie,” showing Saturday Nov. 15 and 17 as part of the Boston Jewish…
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Little White Lie at DOC NYC DOC NYC 2014-11-13 through 2014-11-20 New York, New York Showtimes IFC Center 323 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10014 (212) 924-7771 Sunday, 2014-11-16, 19:00 EST (Local Time) Wednesday, 2014-11-19, 10:45 EST (Local Time) Official Site: http://www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com Producer: Lacey Schwartz, Mehret Mandefro Cinematographer: James Adolphus Editor: Toby…
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Filmmaker in Focus: Lacey Schwartz Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival 2014 2014-09-11 Aurora Herrera Throughout history and for various reasons, many people who are not white have passed for white. But how many people have passed without knowing they were doing so? That is precisely what the documentary Little White Lie, a deeply personal film by Lacey…
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Documentary reveals Jewish mother’s ‘Little White Lie’ The Times of Israel 2014-08-17 Rebecca Spence Lacey Schwartz’s film about reconciling her hidden black paternity to the Ashkenazi Jewish home she was raised in strikes universal themes SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — When Lacey Schwartz celebrated her bat mitzvah more than two decades ago in her hometown of…
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A summer camp where Jews of color go to ‘feel normal’ The Times of Israel 2014-08-20 Rebecca Spence With an emphasis on diverse Diaspora Judaism, Camp Be’chol Lashon has a markedly different mandate than most Jewish camps PETALUMA, Calif. (JTA) — On a cool Sunday evening, Jewish campers with nervous smiles took to the stage…