A Profound Documentary, Little White Lie Follows a Woman’s Search for Her IdentifyPosted in Articles, Autobiography, Book/Video Reviews, Judaism, Media Archive, Religion, United States on 2014-11-28 21:47Z by Steven |
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 fielded probing questions about her race from a young age, but refused to entertain the possibility that she was not the biological offspring of her two white parents. When Lacey was in high school, her parents’ marriage collapsed, and so did the veneer of her identity. Schwartz’s subsequent investigation resulted in this profound and engaging documentary…
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