Outside the Box Documentary by Lacey Schwartz

20Oct2007 Filed under: African-American, JVoices, Jewish Identity, Jewish Life, Race, U.S. identity Author: Cole

Check it out: a “Work-in-Progress Documentary” called Outside the Box by Lacey A. Schwartz, exploring her mixed-race identity–being Black and Jewish in the U.S. (Presented by Gold Glass Productions)

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2 Responses to “Outside the Box Documentary by Lacey Schwartz”

Jessie Stevens
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:56 pm

This girl wasn’t even raised with a black identity!! She found out through her mother’s secrets that she was black after 18 years? She shouldn’t be writing a film on being a black jew, because she couldn’t be whiter!! And then she has the nerve to consider herself a black woman….it’s an insult to us jews everywhere.
Cole Krawitz
November 24th, 2007 at 6:06 pm

I’m not following you Jessie. Why is this an insult? And why can’t someone write about the often too true experience of how identity is shaped in nonlinear and complicated ways?

Why wouldn’t we commend someone for taking the risk to talk about her struggle to understand and make sense of her own identity? Are there not lessons for all of us to learn in that story? In fact, aren’t so many of our stories about how we come to understand who we are, as individuals and communities?