{"id":38435,"date":"2014-11-20T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T17:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38435"},"modified":"2014-11-20T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T17:59:18","slug":"how-a-biracial-woman-grew-up-thinking-she-was-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38435","title":{"rendered":"How a biracial woman grew up thinking she was white"},"content":{"rendered":"

How a biracial woman grew up thinking she was white<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Vox<\/a>
\n2014-11-19<\/p>\n

Jen\u00e9e Desmond-Harris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The only issue: Schwartz had grown up in a Jewish household in Woodstock New York<\/a>, and had always \u2014 despite occasional questions about the source of her brown skin and curly hair \u2014 identified as white…<\/p>\n

…Schwartz, who told Vox<\/em> she now identifies as “black\/biracial,” explaining, “I look at bi-racial as a category of being black,” said Little White Lie’s<\/em><\/a> message is about more than just race…<\/p>\n