{"id":41997,"date":"2015-07-27T00:28:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41997"},"modified":"2015-07-27T00:28:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:28:32","slug":"meet-the-black-woman-raised-to-believe-she-was-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41997","title":{"rendered":"Meet the black woman raised to believe she was white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/11730987\/Racial-identity-Black-woman-raised-to-believe-she-was-white.html\" target=\"_blank\">Meet the black woman raised to believe she was white<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jane Mulkerrins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/11730987\/Racial-identity-Black-woman-raised-to-believe-she-was-white.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/03371\/MAIN_3371008b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Schwartz believes that racial identity is \u201cfluid and contextual\u201d <em>Photo: Nicholas Calcott<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>Growing up, Lacey Schwartz always felt different. It wasn&#8217;t until her late teens that she discovered the truth about her parentage &#8211; and her race<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout my life, people have asked me why I look the way I do,\u201d says Lacey Schwartz. \u201cI would tell them that my parents were white, which was true. I wasn\u2019t pretending to be something I wasn\u2019t. I grew up being told, and believing, that I was the nice, white, Jewish daughter of two nice, white, Jewish parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Schwartz, a 38-year-old film-maker, has brown skin, curly hair and full lips. It was only when she was 18 that her mother admitted the truth: that she had had an affair with a friend and former colleague who was black. And that, in all likelihood, he was Lacey\u2019s biological father.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation not only shook her relationship with her mother to the core, but also led Schwartz to question everything she had believed about who she was, and eventually inspired her to make a documentary about the experience, called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Little White Lie<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started out wanting to make a film about being black and Jewish, because I was really struggling with my dual identity,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I was living in a racial closet at the time that was all about my family secret. So I decided to use the film as a way to fully uncover the secret.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/11730987\/Racial-identity-Black-woman-raised-to-believe-she-was-white.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the black woman raised to believe she was white The Telegraph 2015-07-12 Jane Mulkerrins Schwartz believes that racial identity is \u201cfluid and contextual\u201d Photo: Nicholas Calcott Growing up, Lacey Schwartz always felt different. It wasn&#8217;t until her late teens that she discovered the truth about her parentage &#8211; and her race \u201cThroughout my life, [&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":[20297,3602,18760,7738],"class_list":["post-41997","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-jane-mulkerrins","tag-lacey-schwartz","tag-little-white-lie","tag-the-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41997","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=41997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41999,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41997\/revisions\/41999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}