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Best Of: Mixed Marriage Project / How Racism Costs Everyone

February 14, 2026·48 min·7-min readinterviewpolitics
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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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Dorothy Roberts

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Dorothy RobertsHeather McGeeTanya MosleyDavid BianculliHarry BelafonteEd SullivanStokely Carmichael

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The Mixed Marriage Projectby Dorothy RobertsThe Sum of Usby Heather McGeeBlack Powerby Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton

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Book ReviewsCivil Rights HistoryEconomicsInequalityLong Form JournalismPersonal FinanceRacial JusticeUs Politics

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