Little White Lie

Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical household in Woodstock, NY, but her story is far from ordinary. Raised with noticeably dark skin within a white, Jewish family, Schwartz uncovers a family secret that leads her on a personal quest to examine the big issues of race, identity, and belonging. Coming at a moment when the political dialogue on race has reached a fever pitch, Sundance Institute Film Forward participant Little White Lie confronts a complicated upbringing and asks the question of who we are and what makes us the people we become.

Join New America NYC for a screening of Little White Lie followed by a conversation with the film's director and leading thinkers and activists on race about how our unconscious ideas about race and belonging shape the increasingly polarized cultural climate we live in.

Participants:

Lacey Schwartz
Director and Producer, Little White Lie

@laceyschwartz

Jamil Smith
Senior editor, The New Republic

@JamilSmith

Tavia Nyong'o
Associate Professor of Performance Studies, New York University
Author, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory

@Afrofabulist

Dawn Davis
Founder, Inkwell Book Club
Vice President and Publisher, 37 INK

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