{"id":43787,"date":"2015-11-06T16:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43787"},"modified":"2018-02-22T20:38:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:38:59","slug":"race-religions-series-with-lacey-schwartz-in-conversation-with-allyson-hobbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43787","title":{"rendered":"Race &#038; Religions Series with Lacey Schwartz in conversation with Allyson Hobbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mPTz7-afi78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Race &amp; Religions Series with Lacey Schwartz in conversation with Allyson Hobbs<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1xND4NbMwRz3tcom4_9nSA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanford Jewish Studies<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-05<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arts.stanford.edu\/event\/little-white-lie-a-film-about-dual-identity-and-family-secrets-with-lacey-schwartz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Little White Lie: A Film about Dual Identity and Family Secrets&#8221; with Lacey Schwartz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween Race and Religion: Contemporary American Jewish Life\u201d series with the <a href=\"https:\/\/ccsre.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laceyschwartz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lacey Schwartz<\/a>, an American filmmaker, in conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allysonhobbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allyson Hobbs<\/a>, Assistant Professor of American History at Stanford University<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little White Lie<\/a><\/em> tells Lacey Schwartz\u2019s story of growing up in a typical middle-class Jewish household in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodstock,_New_York\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woodstock, NY<\/a>, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity \u2014 that is until she discovers that her biological father is actually a black man with whom her mother had an affair. Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her parents\u2019 stories as well as her own.<\/p>\n<p>What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her parents\u2019 own stories as well as her own. She pieces together her family history and the story of her dual identity using home videos, archival footage, interviews, and episodes from her own life. <em>Little White Lie<\/em> is a personal documentary about the legacy of family secrets, denial, and redemption.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mPTz7-afi78?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her parents\u2019 own stories as well as her own. She pieces together her family history and the story of her dual identity using home videos, archival footage, interviews, and episodes from her own life. &#8220;Little White Lie&#8221; is a personal documentary about the legacy of family secrets, denial, and redemption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3601,8,6462,820,20,842],"tags":[9812,21206,3602,21796,3233],"class_list":["post-43787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-religion","category-usa","category-videos","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-center-for-comparative-studies-in-race-and-ethnicity","tag-lacey-schwartz","tag-stanford-jewish-studies","tag-stanford-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43787","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=43787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55803,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43787\/revisions\/55803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}