She did not check the racial identity box on her college admission form, but was admitted as a black student based on her photograph.
[2] In the PBS documentary, Little White Lie,[3][4] she tells the story about her unusual upbringing and how finally embracing her racial identity has brought her a modicum of peace.
This film tracks Lacey’s investigative journey into discovering the lies her family told her from a young age about who her biological father is.
She had never considered her life to be "passing" but found a commonality with the people she met in the Black Student Alliance at Georgetown University.
[7] She was born 10 years after the Supreme Court had made its ruling in the case of Loving v. Virginia, which held interracial marriage was legal and there was a spike in births of children born to parents who were black and white, the author Anna Holmes calling that cohort the "Loving Generation".