{"id":37024,"date":"2014-08-10T18:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T18:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37024"},"modified":"2014-08-10T18:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T18:45:26","slug":"little-white-lie-black-and-jewish-filmmaker-documents-growing-up-believing-she-was-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37024","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLittle White Lie\u201d: Black And Jewish Filmmaker Documents Growing Up Believing She Was White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madamenoire.com\/454349\/little-white-lie-black-and-jewish-filmmaker-documents-childhood-believing-she-was-white\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cLittle White Lie\u201d: Black And Jewish Filmmaker Documents Growing Up Believing She Was White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madamenoire.com\" target=\"_blank\">Madame Noire<\/a><br \/>\n2014-08-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/106725037248483814378\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Veronica Wells<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most of us know from a very early age that we\u2019re Black. It happens so early that many of us can\u2019t remember a specific conversation or moment where we learned this truth. But that wasn\u2019t the case for 37-year-old Lacey Schwartz.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz, a Harvard Law School graduate turned filmmaker, didn\u2019t learn she was black until she was 18 years old. While many of us would look at Schwartz, with her light brown skin and dark, curly hair and suspect immediately that she has at least some Black ancestry, she was told by her Jewish family that she was White and had inherited her dark skin from her <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sicily\" target=\"_blank\">Sicilian<\/a> grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>Her story is so fascinating, so remarkable, that she decided to make it the subject for her documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itvs.org\/films\/little-white-lie\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Little White Lie<\/em><\/a> which premiered at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival this past weekend. It will eventually make its way to PBS next year.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary, narrated, obviously, by Schwartz herself, details her at a funeral, discussions with her girlfriends and therapy sessions where she asks over and over again how she was able to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">pass<\/a> for white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the film, Schwartz offers a bit of an explanation: \u201cI come from a long line of New York Jews. My family knew who they were, and they defined who I was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/madamenoire.com\/454349\/little-white-lie-black-and-jewish-filmmaker-documents-childhood-believing-she-was-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLittle White Lie\u201d: Black And Jewish Filmmaker Documents Growing Up Believing She Was White Madame Noire 2014-08-04 Veronica Wells Most of us know from a very early age that we\u2019re Black. It happens so early that many of us can\u2019t remember a specific conversation or moment where we learned this truth. But that wasn\u2019t the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[3602,17706,17707],"class_list":["post-37024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-lacey-schwartz","tag-madame-noire","tag-veronica-wells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}