In the video below, you can watch as Schwartz describes the time a boy during her childhood asked to see her gums to prove whether or not she was White or Black. “I was already questioning my whiteness because of what other people said and because I was aware that I looked different from my family.” In a recent interview, Schwartz said that before she entered college, where she would learn the truth, others had plenty of comments about her Black-looking features. Her parents Peggy and Robert Schwartz never discussed her Black side with her.īut that didn’t stop her from questioning her identity. Schwartz was an only child who grew up in Woodstock, N.Y. My family knew who they were, and they defined who I was.” In the film, Schwartz offers a bit of an explanation: “I come from a long line of New York Jews. The documentary, narrated, obviously, by Schwartz herself, shows her at a funeral, discussions with her girlfriends and therapy sessions where she asks over and over again how she was able to “pass for white.” It will eventually make its way to PBS next year. Her story is so fascinating, so remarkable, that she decided to make it the subject for her documentary Little White Lie which premiered at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival this past weekend.
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