{"id":39289,"date":"2015-01-06T02:08:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T02:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39289"},"modified":"2015-01-06T02:08:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T02:08:20","slug":"jewish-girl-overcomes-a-little-white-lie-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39289","title":{"rendered":"Jewish girl overcomes a \u2018Little White Lie\u2019 about race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/living\/liv-columns-blogs\/jenee-osterheldt\/article5459877.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Jewish girl overcomes a \u2018Little White Lie\u2019 about race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Kansas City Star<\/a><br \/>\nKansas City, Missouri<br \/>\n2015-01-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeneeinkc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jene\u00e9 Osterheldt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I look at one of her old baby pictures, I think of my own childhood snapshots.<\/p>\n<p>A mixed little girl sits happily in her white mama\u2019s lap. It\u2019s a sweet picture of Lacey Schwartz and her mother. But unlike me, she didn\u2019t know her true heritage until she was grown. Ironically, her last name means black in German and Yiddish, but Lacey grew up white.<\/p>\n<p>Her caramel-latte brown skin and dark, curly hair stood out in her loving, upper-middle-class Jewish household in mostly white <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodstock,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\">Woodstock, N.Y<\/a>. The family had an explanation for that: Lacey looked like her father\u2019s Sicilian grandfather.<\/p>\n<p>But deep down, she always wondered&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cI lived over a decade in a racial closet,\u201d Lacey says. \u201cLearning the truth was a relief that led to this larger search on how to integrate my two identities. I personally identify as biracial. But I look at that as a category of being black with the understanding that other biracial people may not feel that way.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/living\/liv-columns-blogs\/jenee-osterheldt\/article5459877.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish girl overcomes a \u2018Little White Lie\u2019 about race The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2015-01-05 Jene\u00e9 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\u2019s lap. It\u2019s a sweet picture of Lacey Schwartz and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,3601,8,6462,820,20],"tags":[5058,5059,3602,14660],"class_list":["post-39289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-religion","category-usa","tag-jenee-osterheldt","tag-kansas-city-star","tag-lacey-schwartz","tag-the-kansas-city-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289","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=39289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}