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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“I consider myself black. I consider myself biracial too. But for me—I’m not trying to define it for other people—because as you just said, other people feel differently. But, I look at being biracial as a category of being black.” —Lacey Schwartz Ebro in the Morning, “Movie “Little White Lie” Creator Lacey Schwartz Talks Not…
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Every Family Has Its Secrets: Lacey Schwartz Connects with Film Forward Audiences in Taiwan Sundance Film Forward 2015-09-24 Lacey Schwartz, Director Little White Lie This Sundance Film Forward trip to Taiwan marked the Asian Premiere of Little White Lie. It also was my first time ever in Asia. The things that people seemed to say…
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The top 13 Jewish newsmakers of 5775 JTA: Jewish Telegraphic Agency 2015-08-26 Julie Wiener (JTA) — With the Jewish year winding down, here’s a look back at 13 Jews who repeatedly made the news in 5775. Whether you love them or hate them — or your feelings are purely pareve — it’s hard to deny…
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Lacey Schwartz didn’t know she was black, but her black friends did Fusion 2015-08-19 Collier Meyerson With two white parents and no black family members (save for a dark Sicilian uncle a couple generations removed), Lacey Schwartz was raised thinking she was white. Growing up, Schwartz’s community was predominantly white: her friends, her classes, her…
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Meet the black woman raised to believe she was white The Telegraph 2015-07-12 Jane Mulkerrins Schwartz believes that racial identity is “fluid and contextual” Photo: Nicholas Calcott Growing up, Lacey Schwartz always felt different. It wasn’t until her late teens that she discovered the truth about her parentage – and her race “Throughout my life,…
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From ‘blood quantum’ to multiracial bill of rights, Dolezal saga ignites talk of identity The Seattle Times 2015-06-17 Nina Shapiro, Seattle Times staff reporter The endless fascination with the Rachel Dolezal story reveals our hunger to talk about racial identity in all its complexity. When Amanda Erekson was in her early 20s, a friend introduced…
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As Rachel Dolezal Breaks Silence, a Roundtable Discussion on Race, Appropriation and Identity Democracy Now: A Daily Independent Global News Hour Wednesday, 2015-06-17 Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer Juan González, Co-Host Stacey Patton, Senior Enterprise Reporter The Chronicle of Higher Education Lacey Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer Truth Aid (also Producer/director of the documentary film…
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Join in the #LittleWhiteLie Twitter Chat with Filmmaker @laceyschwartz & More! #LittleWhiteLie, @lwlfilm 2015-06-16, 20:00 EDT (2015-06-17, 00:00Z) An online discussion on Race, Identity and “Little White Lies” Lacey Schwartz, Filmmaker (Little White Lie) Brooklyn, New York Yaba Blay, Author and Professor (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Collier Meyerson, Race & Politics Reporter…
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‘Are you African-American?’ All In With Chris Hayes MSNBC 2015-06-12 Chris Hayes, Host Lacey Schwartz, a film-maker who grew up in a white family then discovered that her biological father was black, shares her unique perspective on Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane NAACP whose estranged parents claim is misrepresenting herself as black. Watch…
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4th Annual “What Are You?” with Lacey Schwartz’s “Little White Lie” Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Monday, 2015-06-08, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) A BHS “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations” program. Top: Lacey Schwartz, photo by Michael Hill; Bottom: Lise Funderburg, photo by Tigist Tsegie On the week of Loving Day 2015,…