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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strangerain Champs. This hour, split identities. Multiracial

Americans are the fastest growing group among young people today, and demographers say that

trend won't be slowing down anytime soon. Across the nation, young, multiracial, and

multi-ethnic Americans are banding together to celebrate their shared,

mixed heritage. But for some people, forming a unified multicultural identity is a challenge.

Lacey Schwartz was raised in a white, upper-middle-class Jewish household in upstate New York.

When she was 18 years old, she discovered that she was biracial, the product of an

extramarital affair. Lacey chronicles the revelation and her own search for identity in the

documentary Little White Lie. Sarah Nix caught up with her. Did you think about race much when you

were growing up? Do you have any memories like that? Yeah, I think I had a lot of memories

growing up of just this idea of difference. I mean, obviously in the film, I talk about my earliest

memory around that, which was being in nursery school and a fellow student asking me to show him my

gums. I guess somebody had told him that if, you know, your gums are white, then you're white. If your gums are black, then you're black.

At the time, more than anything, it just introduced this idea that I could be different from

somebody else and they could ask me about it.

I mean, I think that that was really what it cemented into my mind more than anything.

It's this idea of difference.

Not until later in my life, did this concept of race connect to difference.

And it seems like that sense of difference and particularly difference of appearance from the people

around you embedded itself somehow. You even wrote in your diary that you wished you had lighter skin.

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