You know, as I write about in the Mix Marys project, all these couples, with rare exception, lived in the black belt, the segregated black neighborhoods, the corridor in Chicago where black people were forced to live.

You know, if a white person married a black person, they had to move into the

black belt. And I was fascinated by this 21-year-old who went into the black belt, not just to

walk around, but to go up to people's homes and knock on the door and ask if he could interview

them and the success he had at a time

when their marriages were taboo where many of them had to hide their marriages to keep their

jobs.

Welcome to the Stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them.

I'm your host, Tracy Thomas, and today I am joined by sociologist, law professor, and award-winning

author Dorothy Roberts.

She is here to discuss her brand new book, The Mixed Marriage Project, a memoir of love,

race, and family.

In this powerful memoir, Dorothy recounts her experiences growing up in an interracial

family in 1960 Chicago and explores the ways her parents' marriage and their dedicated research

on interracial relationships helped to shape her understanding of her own identity. Today, Dorothy

and I talked about how discovering her parents' research helped change her relationship to them,

about the language of

interracial relationships, and the ways they have changed over time. Our book club pick for February

is Indigo by Beverly Jenkins. We will be discussing the book on Wednesday, February 25th,

with Jasmine Gillerie. Everything we talk about on each episode of the Stacks is linked in our show

notes. And if you like this

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