Love, Race & the ‘Mixed Marriage Project’
Legal scholar Dorothy Roberts recounts how discovering her late father's 50 years of research on interracial marriage — including interviews dating back to 1937 — upended her understanding of her family, her identity, and the racial politics of love. What began as an attempt to complete h
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