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flag Dorothy Roberts reveals her parents' racialized study of interracial couples, confronting her own identity and challenging the fetishization of mixed-race relationships.

flag In her memoir *The Mixed Marriage Project*, University of Pennsylvania professor Dorothy Roberts explores her parents’ 1930s–1960s research on interracial couples in Chicago, uncovering her mother, a Black Jamaican immigrant, played a key role interviewing wives while her white father studied husbands. flag Roberts, shocked to find herself listed as participant 224, reflects on her identity as a Black woman with a white father, critiques her father’s racialized scientific approach, and highlights the social and economic hardships faced by white immigrant women who married Black men. flag She challenges the fetishization of interracial relationships and biracial children, advocating for racial equality rooted in recognizing people as equals, not through mixed heritage.

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