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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Tag: Little White Lie
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Growing Up White Until a Family Secret Revealed She Was Not The Root 2015-03-22 Genetta M. Adams, Senior Editor In the documentary Little White Lie, filmmaker Lacey Schwartz spins a compelling story about embracing her racial identity. Lacey Schwartz grew up as a white, Jewish girl in the predominantly white community of Woodstock, N.Y., raised…
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Little White Lie Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service Monday, 2015-03-23, 22:00 EDT (21:00 CDT) (check schedule here) Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity — despite the open questions from those around…
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A young Jewish woman, raised as white, learns she’s not Religion News Service 2015-03-13 Lauren Markoe, National Reporter WASHINGTON (RNS) The Schwartz‘s seemed like any other Jewish family in Woodstock, N.Y., except for one thing: mom and dad were obviously white, and their daughter Lacey was obviously not. That racial disconnect would be easier to…
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Allan Wolper Talks to Lacey Schwartz Conversations with Allan Wolper WBGO 88.3 FM Newark, New Jersey 2015-03-16 Allan Wolper, Professor of Journalism Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock,…
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Lacey Schwartz came to terms with her true racial identity in ‘Little White Lie’ The New York Daily News 2014-11-30 Justin Rocket Silverman, Senior Features Writer Documentary film chronicles how she grew up believing she was a white Jewish girl and then learned her biological father was black Lacey Schwartz didn’t know she was black…