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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Jewish girl overcomes a ‘Little White Lie’ about race The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2015-01-05 Jeneé Osterheldt When I look at one of her old baby pictures, I think of my own childhood snapshots. A mixed little girl sits happily in her white mama’s lap. It’s a sweet picture of Lacey Schwartz and…
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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…
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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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What if you were told you were white All In with Chris Hayes MSNBC 2014-10-02 Chris Hayes, Host Lacey Schwartz, Filmaker “Little White Lie” But it turns out you’re not. Chris Hayes talks to filmmaker Lacey Schwartz about growing up believing she was white, when in fact, she’s not. Watch the video here.