Best Of: Mixed Marriage Project / How Racism Costs Everyone
Dorothy Roberts' memoir The Mixed Marriage Project upends her understanding of her father’s life work on interracial marriage, revealing that his research began decades before he met her mother, forcing her to confront the entanglement of personal identity, racial politics, and academic
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