Society / In a new memoir, author Dorothy Roberts explores why interracial attraction can’t be disentangled from the larger forces of race, gender, and power that govern our world. Dorothy Roberts I ...

In “The Mixed Marriage Project,” Dorothy Roberts reflects on her anthropologist father’s lifelong project: to document — and promote — interracial marriages like his own.

MacArthur Fellow Dorothy Roberts explores the impact of anti-Black racism on interracial families.

Roberts based the book on a collection of interviews her father conducted with interracial couples in Chicago between the 1930s and the 1980s.

NPR's Michel Martin asks professor Dorothy Roberts about her new memoir, "The Mixed Marriage Project," about her father's quest to challenge white supremacy by studying interracial couples in Chicago.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One day in the 1970s, Paul Fleisher and his wife were walking through a department store parking lot when they noticed a group of people looking at them. Fleisher, who is white, ...

In 1958, newlyweds Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving — a black woman and a white man — were indicted on charges of violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriages and banished from their home state.

An influx of immigrants has sparked diversity and more multiracial marriages in America, according to a Brookings Institution article that notes whites are the most likely partner. William H. Frey ...

In its landmark 1967 Loving v. Virginia ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court finally bestowed protection on interracial marriages. Relationships between black people and white people had always existed, but ...

On May 31, 2012, in a decision that’s sure to be appealed to the Supreme Court, a federal court struck down as unconstitutional the Defense of Marriage Act, ruling that it unfairly denies equal ...

Mississippi law criminalized interracial marriage with life imprisonment shortly after the Civil War. The legal definition of Blackness in Mississippi evolved, eventually adopting the "one-drop" rule ...

Oprah's recent interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle raises many questions about race relations, including those within families after the formation of interracial unions. What does the ...