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'Mixed Marriage Project’ charts decades of Black-white marital unions in Chicago
Researchers mapped decades of interracial unions to show how Black-White couples shaped Chicago neighborhoods, drawing on historical records and local family stories.
- Author Dorothy Roberts publishes a new book documenting her father Robert Roberts' decades-long sociological research on Black and White couples in Chicago.
- Robert Roberts and researcher Iris White conducted the research to challenge what they viewed as Chicago's "racial caste system" spanning decades at the University of Chicago.
- The archive contains interviews with couples from 1937 through the 1980s, newspaper articles, and drafts that Dorothy Roberts used to compile her memoir about her family.
- Through analyzing these papers, Roberts demonstrates how her parents aimed to dismantle what she calls "lies about racial divisions" by documenting the couples' lived experiences.
- This research provides historical perspective on racism and white supremacy in America, emphasizing how loving relationships across racial lines challenged systemic inequality.
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'Mixed Marriage Project’ charts decades of Black-white marital unions in Chicago
CHICAGO — As the year moves us closer to the months that we pay homage on Mother’s and Father’s Day to those who birthed us, nostalgic memories inevitably arise. In Dorothy Roberts’ latest book, “The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir…
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