{"id":8511,"date":"2010-08-26T16:08:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T16:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8511"},"modified":"2013-01-11T03:30:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T03:30:24","slug":"shades-of-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8511","title":{"rendered":"Shades of Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajlmagazine.com\/content\/012007\/laceyschwartz.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shades of Gray<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajlmagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">American Jewish Life Magazine<\/a><br \/>\nJanuary\/February 2007<\/p>\n<p><strong>E. B. Solomont<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bechollashon.org\/speakers\/schwartz.php\" target=\"_blank\">Lacey Schwartz<\/a> had the typical middle-class Jewish upbringing in upstate New York. Until her 18th birthday when her mom told her she was the product of an affair with a black man. Now Lacey is making a documentary about her newfound life as a black Jew.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was the boxes on her college application. The ones where you check white or black. Lacey Schwartz didn&#8217;t know which to check, so she sent a picture instead, which led the school administrators to enroll her as a black student, one who inexplicably had two white Jewish parents. That\u2019s how she made it 18 years before blowing the lid off the family secret: That her mother had an affair with a black man, that she was the product of their union.<\/p>\n<p>In a certain sense, the boxes still haunt a 30-year-old Lacey \u2014 now a Harvard-educated lawyer and successful film producer in New York City. American culture seeks to compartmentalize people, she tells me during a discussion of her work-in-progress documentary about black Jews in America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajlmagazine.com\/content\/012007\/laceyschwartz.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shades of Gray American Jewish Life Magazine January\/February 2007 E. B. Solomont Lacey Schwartz had the typical middle-class Jewish upbringing in upstate New York. Until her 18th birthday when her mom told her she was the product of an affair with a black man. Now Lacey is making a documentary about her newfound life as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,820,20,25],"tags":[3604,3603,3605,3602],"class_list":["post-8511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","category-women","tag-american-jewish-life-magazine","tag-e-b-solomont","tag-lacey-a-schwartz","tag-lacey-schwartz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511","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=8511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}