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Her father added the N-word to ‘Blazing Saddles.’ Now Richard Pryor’s Jewish daughter is interrogating its role in her life.

JL;DR SUMMARY Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor, daughter of the legendary comedian Richard Pryor and his Jewish partner, explores her unique cultural and racial identity in her memoir "Something We Said." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HistoryJewish IdentityMemoirCultural IdentityRacismN WordRichard PryorBlazing SaddlesMixed RaceElizabeth Stordeur Pryor

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Los Angeles, California, United States
"In the Los Angeles bat mitzvah scene in the 1970s, her Jewish classmates would make ceaseless remarks about her race."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"not until I got to L.A. [after an early childhood in Boston] did I realize like people observed this more broadly."

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