Family & Local History Book Club – The Mixed Marriage Project by Dorothy Roberts

As a 21-year-old graduate student, Dorothy Roberts’ father dedicated himself to the study of interracial marriage and her mother soon became his full-time partner in that work. Decades later, Roberts discovers that her father’s research didn’t begin with her parents’ love story, it came long before it. This forces her to wrestle with her father’s intentions, her own views about interracial relationships, and where she fits in that story. Rather than finish the book her father never published, Roberts immerses herself in their archive of interviews to trace the story of her parents and to better understand her own.