Unveiling Hidden Truths: How Dorothy Roberts’ Memoir Challenges Everything We Think About Race and Family
Roberts’ father did more than study mixed-race unions; he sought to promote them, believing racial barriers designed to uphold White Supremacy could be dismantled through mixed-race marriages. As one interviewee put it, with enough successful mixed-race marriages, white people would realize that integration would work, adding, “[Mixed-race marriages] would prove that white Americans could also work, attend school, live in neighborhoods, ride buses and eat in restaurants alongside Black Americans.”
