“Few books manage to rewrite both a family’s history and a nation’s moral record, yet The Mixed Marriage Project miraculously does both. Dorothy Roberts transforms personal excavation into social revelation, unearthing how love, race, and law have intertwined across generations. With the precision of a scholar and the passion of a truth-teller, she restores voices long silenced and shows how the intimate and the political are never apart. This memoir is an astonishing act of remembrance and repair."
—Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

"In The Mixed Marriage Project, Dorothy Roberts, the most important contemporary scholar of race, gender and the law, turns her remarkable intellect and mighty pen to her most intimate subject to date: her sociologist father's many decades of research on interracial marriage as well as her parents' interracial union and her own coming of age. This book is tender, probing, and beautiful: filled with vivid characters and deep insight about twentieth century America in its midwest metropolis. An important addition to the canon of Chicago literature represented by figures like Carl Sandburg, Lorraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, The Mixed Marriage Project is a brilliant and wholly unique yet widely illuminating book. "
—Imani Perry, author of South to America

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“Roberts shares insight about the history of interracial relationships in the United States and brings to light her father’s research in this highly recommended memoir.”
—Library Journal (starred review)

“A rich and riveting blend of memoir and research that tackles issues ranging from redlining to intersectional racism and sexism to personal musings about discovering Roberts’ mother’s scholarly voice and her father’s commitment to building community. An insightful and fundamentally joyful narrative about uncovering a family’s hidden past.”
—Kirkus [starred review]