{"id":44205,"date":"2015-11-26T01:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44205"},"modified":"2015-11-26T01:10:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T01:10:59","slug":"nobody-discussed-it-lacey-schwartz-and-little-white-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44205","title":{"rendered":"Nobody Discussed It: Lacey Schwartz and \u201cLittle White Lie\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.prx.org\/stories\/149329\" target=\"_blank\">Nobody Discussed It: Lacey Schwartz and \u201cLittle White Lie\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.prx.org\/series\/31289\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Curious<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prx.org\" target=\"_blank\">Public Radio Exchange<\/a> (PRX)<br \/>\n2015-05-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.prx.org\/accounts\/456\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Barry Vogel<\/strong><\/a>, Producer<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukiah,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Ukiah, California<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The secret revealed in the life of Lacey Schwartz, born in 1987 to a white Jewish family in rural upstate New York, where she grew up, is that her biological father was black. The few who knew her truth remained silent until after her first year of college when she asked her mother why she looked the way she did. Lacey Schwartz is the producer and director of the film \u201cLittle White Lie,\u201d with a website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.littlewhiteliethefilm.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLittle White Lie\u201d will be shown at the Mendocino Film Festival on May 29, 2015, in the village of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mendocino,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Mendocino, California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lacey Schwartz and I visited by phone from her home near New York City, on May 11, 2015. First we hear a clip of Lacey\u2019s voice taken from the introduction of the film \u201cLittle White Lie,\u201d and later intersperse our conversation with clips from the film.<\/p>\n<p>The book Lacey Schwartz recommends is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/how-it-feels-to-be-free-9780195314038?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement<\/a>,\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncas.rutgers.edu\/ruth-feldstein\" target=\"_blank\">Ruth Feldstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the story (00:29:01) <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.prx.org\/stories\/149329\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody Discussed It: Lacey Schwartz and \u201cLittle White Lie\u201d Radio Curious Public Radio Exchange (PRX) 2015-05-11 Barry Vogel, Producer Ukiah, California The secret revealed in the life of Lacey Schwartz, born in 1987 to a white Jewish family in rural upstate New York, where she grew up, is that her biological father was black. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,395,3601,8,6462,820,20],"tags":[22018,3602,22019,22017],"class_list":["post-44205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-judaism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-religion","category-usa","tag-barry-vogel","tag-lacey-schwartz","tag-public-radio-exchange","tag-radio-curious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44205","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=44205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44206,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44205\/revisions\/44206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}