Author Chat: Dorothy Roberts' Memoir "The Mixed Marriage Project"

Babes in Bookland · Jun 16, 2026 · 1h 6m

What questions should you be asking the people you love while you still can?That's the thread running through this conversation with Dorothy Roberts, whose memoir The Mixed Marriage Projectstarted with a stack of boxes. After her parents passed, Dorothy opened them and found nearly 500 interviews her white father had conducted with interracial couples in Chicago, beginning in 1937, almost two decades before he married her Black mother. Inside were wild parties, a nudist camp, a turn-of-the-century club for mixed couples, and a file labeled number 224 that turned out to be about her.We talk…