Unveiling Hidden Truths: How Dorothy Roberts’ Memoir Challenges Everything We Think About Race and Family
Reviewed by Amy Roost
I thought I knew a lot about racism. Then I read The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family by Dorothy Roberts.
After his death, Dorothy Roberts, a professor of sociology and civil rights at the University of Pennsylvania, was the designated keeper of her father Robert’s papers. Robert was an anthropology professor at Roosevelt University in Chicago who conducted the first sociological analysis of Black-white marriages from the 1930s through the 1960s. His findings were never published.
