{"id":39298,"date":"2015-01-07T01:44:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39298"},"modified":"2015-01-07T01:44:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:44:15","slug":"when-being-black-is-a-family-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39298","title":{"rendered":"When Being Black Is a Family Secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Being Black Is a Family Secret<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

the sisterhood: where jewish women converse<\/a>
\nThe Jewish Daily Forward<\/a>
\n2015-01-02<\/p>\n

Susan Reimer-Torn<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

When Lacey Schwartz was accepted at Georgetown University, it was a dream come true. It also blew the lid off a tightly-guarded secret.<\/p>\n

Along with her admission, the high school senior from Woodstock, New York<\/a> received an invitation to join the Black Student Alliance. She had chosen not to check an ethnicity box on her application, but she did include a photo.<\/p>\n

The acknowledgement that she was black ran counter to a lifelong assumption: Schwartz was raised as the biological daughter of her mother and her father, two white Jews with Eastern-European origins. The invitation led to a process of inquiry that revealed a hidden truth: Schwartz was the daughter of her mother and her mother\u2019s long-time black lover.<\/p>\n

The young woman\u2019s undaunted deconstruction of an explosive family secret inspired the autobiographical documentary Little White Lie<\/em><\/a>. The film is the result of Schwartz revisiting her life with an ever-present camera to record startlingly frank encounters in a home, larger family and community where once there had only been denial. The film chronicles the process of dismantling a false identity and reconstructing a new one.<\/p>\n

Reached by phone in a recent interview, Schwartz explains why her story speaks to so many. \u201cMy case is particular in its details. But lots of people feel a gap between the person they are raised to believe they are and who they sense they might be.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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