Dorothy E. Roberts
Legal scholar and author known for work on race, reproduction, and social policy; professor of law and sociology and author of The Mixed Marriage Project, among other influential books.
Best podcasts with Dorothy E. Roberts
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Feb 10, 2026 • 44min
Love, Race & the ‘Mixed Marriage Project’
Dorothy Roberts, legal scholar and author known for work on race and reproduction, reflects on her parents' interracial marriage research and her new memoir. She recounts uncovering archival interviews, family ties to the project, the complexities of interracial intimacy, and how personal history shaped her identity. The conversation probes whether love alone can challenge racial structures.
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Feb 14, 2026 • 48min
Best Of: Mixed Marriage Project / How Racism Costs Everyone
Dorothy Roberts, legal scholar who unearthed her father’s 1930s interracial marriage research and turned it into a memoir. Heather McGhee, policy scholar and author exploring how racism harms everyone economically and socially. They discuss discovering archival interviews, debates over whether love can dismantle racism, the origins of zero-sum thinking, and how racial inequality drains the economy.
