{"id":53508,"date":"2017-04-14T01:40:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T01:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53508"},"modified":"2017-04-14T01:40:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T01:40:28","slug":"lacey-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53508","title":{"rendered":"Lacey Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lacey Schwartz<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Stone Fox Bride<\/a>
\n2017-02-17<\/p>\n

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Lacey Schwartz<\/a> on Leaning In, Little White Lies And Imperfect Love<\/em><\/p>\n

Who:<\/strong> Lacey Schwartz<\/a>, Truth Teller, Filmmaker, Mama Of Two<\/p>\n

Why She\u2019s Foxy:<\/strong> After digging up a wild family secret at the age of eighteen, she discovered her roots, directed a PBS documentary and found her strength in storytelling<\/p>\n

On Her Childhood:<\/strong> \u201cI grew up an only child in the deep in the country in Accord, New York<\/a>. You couldn’t see other houses from where I was, and it felt like a bubble. You would have to ask my parents, but I think I was pretty chill as a kid. I was a very rational child who could entertain myself. My favorite books were Beverly Cleary<\/em>, Judy Blume<\/em>, The Babysitters Club<\/em> by Ann M. Martin and Betsy-Tacy and Tib<\/em> by Maud Hart Lovelace.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…On Little White Lies<\/em>:<\/strong> \u201cAfter law school, I had an offer on the table and started waiting tables in New York. I considered going into the mailroom at an agency. I ended up getting a job at a production company and then in the background started thinking about making Little White Lie<\/em><\/a>, a personal documentary about dual identity and family secrets. My story is I grew up in a white Jewish family in upstate New York. I thought I was white, despite my dark features, until I found out at the age of eighteen that my biological father was black…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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