Dorothy Roberts at Elliot Bay Book Company
Thu, Feb 26
|Elliott Bay Book Company | Seattle
During Black History Month, Dorothy Roberts’s debut memoir The Mixed Marriage Project feels especially resonant. Best known for her landmark work Killing the Black Body, Roberts turns inward in her latest release, examining her upbringing in a Black/white interracial family in '60s Chicago and...
Time & Place
Feb 26, 2026, 7:00 PM PST
Elliott Bay Book Company | Seattle, 1521 10th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122, USA
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Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and Professor of Law and Sociology at University of Pennsylvania, discusses her debut memoir, The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family. Blurring the boundaries between the political and the personal, between memoir and history, The Mixed Marriage Project is a deeply moving meditation on family, race, identity, and love.
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A spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter’s journey to understand her parents’ marriage—and her own identity.
Dorothy Roberts grew up in a deeply segregated Chicago of the 1960s where relationships barely crossed the “colorline.” Yet inside her own home, where her father was white and her mother a Black Jamaican immigrant, interracial marriage wasn’t just…