Unveiling Hidden Truths: How Dorothy Roberts’ Memoir Challenges Everything We Think About Race and Family
By the end of The Mixed Marriage Project, Roberts’ thinking about her father and herself has evolved significantly making for a satisfying narrative arc. She reconnects to the memories of her idyllic childhood in Liberia, Kenwood (Chicago), and Egypt. She sees her parents’ qualities and herself in them, and no longer fears the perception that having a white father makes her less Black. Finally, she better appreciates the role integration in general, and interracial marriage in particular, plays in the dismantling of White Supremacy.
