{"id":40530,"date":"2015-03-20T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40530"},"modified":"2015-03-20T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T01:00:20","slug":"a-young-jewish-woman-raised-as-white-learns-shes-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40530","title":{"rendered":"A young Jewish woman, raised as white, learns she\u2019s not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/03\/13\/young-jewish-woman-raised-white-learns-shes-not\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A young Jewish woman, raised as white, learns she\u2019s not<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Religion News Service<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lmarkoe\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lauren Markoe<\/strong><\/a>, National Reporter<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (RNS) The Schwartz\u2018s seemed like any other Jewish family in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodstock,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\">Woodstock, N.Y.<\/a>, except for one thing: mom and dad were obviously white, and their daughter Lacey was obviously not.<\/p>\n<p>That racial disconnect would be easier to fathom if Peggy and Robert Schwartz hadn\u2019t had everyone believing their dark-skinned daughter was the biological child of both parents.<\/p>\n<p>It would take \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Little White Lie<\/a>,\u201d the film an adult Lacey made about family secrets and religious identity, to unpack this mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in a world of synagogue, Hebrew school, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bar_and_Bat_Mitzvah\" target=\"_blank\">bar mitzvahs<\/a>,\u201d Schwartz narrates over a home movie montage of Jewish holiday celebrations and her own bat mitzvah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it never occurred to me that I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passing<\/a>,\u201d she continues. \u201cI wasn\u2019t pretending to be something I wasn\u2019t. I actually grew up believing I was white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle White Lie,\u201d which has enjoyed success on the film festival circuit and will reach a larger audience when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS\u2019s <em>Independent Lens<\/em><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=38904\" target=\"_blank\">airs it on March 23<\/a>, revolves around a flabbergasting central question: How could this family pretend that she owed her complexion to the genes of dad\u2019s darkest Italian ancestor?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/03\/13\/young-jewish-woman-raised-white-learns-shes-not\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young Jewish woman, raised as white, learns she\u2019s not Religion News Service 2015-03-13 Lauren Markoe, National Reporter WASHINGTON (RNS) The Schwartz\u2018s seemed like any other Jewish family in Woodstock, N.Y., except for one thing: mom and dad were obviously white, and their daughter Lacey was obviously not. 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