Word: schonfield
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Davis, the daughter of a black father (jazz pianist Walter Davis Jr.) and a white mother (part-time jazz singer Anna Schonfield), says she never fit in with any particular racial group when she was growing up in New York City's arty Greenwich Village. "I identify with both and neither at the same time," she says. "I figure I exist as an eraser for the lines that are drawn between the races...