A daughter reexamines her own family story in 'The Mixed Marriage Project'

Dorothy Roberts (left) is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her parents, Robert and Iris, married in the 1950s.

Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples in Chicago. Her memoir draws from their records.

(Image credit: Cris Crisman)