{"id":39051,"date":"2014-12-23T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39051"},"modified":"2014-12-23T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T18:52:54","slug":"lacey-schwartz-came-to-terms-with-her-true-racial-identity-in-little-white-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39051","title":{"rendered":"Lacey Schwartz came to terms with her true racial identity in &#8216;Little White Lie&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/movies\/lacey-schwartz-deal-white-lie-article-1.2025148\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Lacey Schwartz came to terms with her true racial identity in &#8216;Little White Lie&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Daily News<\/a><br \/>\n2014-11-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinrocket\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Justin Rocket Silverman<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Features Writer<\/p>\n<p><em>Documentary film chronicles how she grew up believing she was a white Jewish girl and then learned her biological father was black<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lacey Schwartz didn\u2019t know she was black \u2014 until the college she applied to classified her as that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come from a long line of New York Jews,\u201d the 37-year-old filmmaker says in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Little White Lie<\/a>,\u201d her new documentary feature. \u201cI wasn\u2019t pretending to be something I wasn\u2019t. I actually grew up believing I was white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The story of how Schwartz came to understand her real identity is the subject of \u201cLittle White Lie,\u201d now playing in select theaters. The movie is more than a decade in the making, as Schwartz began filming herself in her college dorm room and in sessions with her therapist, often in tears, as she struggled to understand who, and what, she is.<\/p>\n<p>That story began in 1968, the year her white Jewish parents were married. Her mom got a job that same year at a playground in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Flatbush,_Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">East Flatbush, Brooklyn<\/a>, and met a black man there who would become Schwartz\u2019s biological father. But Schwartz\u2019s mom never told her husband that her child wasn\u2019t really his. Instead, the baby\u2019s dark complexion was explained as a genetic echo of an Italian grandfather&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/movies\/lacey-schwartz-deal-white-lie-article-1.2025148\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lacey Schwartz came to terms with her true racial identity in &#8216;Little White Lie&#8217; 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\u2019t know she was black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,5,3601,8,820,20],"tags":[18850,18848,18851,3602,18760,1463,18849],"class_list":["post-39051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-book-reviews","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-justin-r-silverman","tag-justin-rocket-silverman","tag-justin-silverman","tag-lacey-schwartz","tag-little-white-lie","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-the-new-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39051","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=39051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}