The Mixed Marriage Project

Dorothy Roberts recounts growing up in segregated 1960s Chicago with a white father, an anthropologist, and a Black Jamaican mother who together interviewed over 500 interracial couples starting in the 1930s.

Decades later, sorting through her father's papers reveals his research predated their marriage, prompting her to delve into their archive, reflect on her childhood as a Black girl with a white father, and blend personal memoir with the stories of interracial couples over four decades.

Blurring memoir, history, and scholarship, the book meditates on family, race, identity, and love while championing interracial relationships' role in advancing social equality.