{"id":42335,"date":"2015-08-20T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42335"},"modified":"2016-08-23T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T21:26:32","slug":"lacey-schwartz-didnt-know-she-was-black-but-her-black-friends-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42335","title":{"rendered":"Lacey Schwartz didn\u2019t know she was black, but her black friends did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/185345\/lacey-schwartz-didnt-know-she-was-black-but-her-black-friends-did\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lacey Schwartz didn\u2019t know she was black, but her black friends did<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\" target=\"_blank\">Fusion<\/a><br \/>\n2015-08-19<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/collier\" target=\"_blank\">Collier Meyerson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With two white parents and no black family members (save for a dark Sicilian uncle a couple generations removed), Lacey Schwartz was raised thinking she was white. Growing up, Schwartz\u2019s community was predominantly white: her friends, her classes, her summer camp.<\/p>\n<p>But the few black people in Schwartz\u2019s life struck a nerve\u2014and poked holes in the story she told herself and in the story her family told her.<\/p>\n<p>I worked on Schwartz\u2019s documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com\/\"><em>Little White Lie<\/em><\/a>, which details her journey from white to black, of being the product of a family secret overloaded with an extramarital affair, love, and betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>During that time, it wasn\u2019t the salacious stuff I was interested in. I wanted to know about how Schwartz came into blackness and who ushered her in. When you don\u2019t grow up with a black parent or in a black community, or even consciously knowing you are black, how do you become black?<\/p>\n<p>I came to learn that the black people in her life made lasting impressions on her\u2014from near and far\u2014even before she had the language or knowledge of her blackness. They pushed her, listened to her, taught and accepted her.<\/p>\n<p>It was black people who always knew Lacey Schwartz was black. No one had the wool over their eyes. So I asked her about it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/185345\/lacey-schwartz-didnt-know-she-was-black-but-her-black-friends-did\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lacey Schwartz didn\u2019t know she was black, but her black friends did Fusion 2015-08-19 Collier Meyerson With two white parents and no black family members (save for a dark Sicilian uncle a couple generations removed), Lacey Schwartz was raised thinking she was white. Growing up, Schwartz\u2019s community was predominantly white: her friends, her classes, her [&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":[20251,19052,3602,18760],"class_list":["post-42335","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-collier-meyerson","tag-fusion","tag-lacey-schwartz","tag-little-white-lie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42335","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=42335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42336,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42335\/revisions\/42336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}