{"id":34923,"date":"2013-12-03T06:13:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T06:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34923"},"modified":"2013-12-03T06:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T06:13:38","slug":"interracial-marriage-and-the-civil-rights-revolution-a-personal-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34923","title":{"rendered":"Interracial Marriage and the Civil Rights Revolution: A Personal Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.sas.upenn.edu\/content\/inaugral-provosts-lecture-diversity-dorothy-roberts\" target=\"_blank\">Interracial Marriage and the Civil Rights Revolution: A Personal Journey<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/provost.upenn.edu\/faculty\/provost-lecture\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Pennsylvania Provost presents The Inaugural Provost\u2019s Lecture on Diversity<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<br \/>\nAnnenberg School Room 110<br \/>\n2013-11-13, 17:00-19:00 EST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.upenn.edu\/cf\/faculty\/roberts1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothy E. Roberts<\/a><\/strong>, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights<br \/>\n<em>University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As far back as I can remember, my father was conducting research for a book on interracial marriage in Chicago.\u00a0 He died without publishing the work to which he devoted his entire academic career.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2002-01-23\/news\/0201230382_1_interracial-anthropology-mr-roberts\" target=\"_blank\">Robert E.T. Roberts<\/a>, an anthropologist at Roosevelt University in downtown Chicago, interviewed more than 600 black-white couples over a period of five decades.\u00a0 He began in 1937 as a 22-year-old master\u2019s student at University of Chicago, recording the life histories of interracial couples married as early as 1890.\u00a0 He continued interviewing couples for his Ph.D. dissertation, completed in 1956, the year I was born.\u00a0 Two years earlier, my father, who was white, married my mother, a black Jamaican immigrant who came to Roosevelt on a scholarship and accompanied him on interviews as his research assistant.\u00a0 For the remainder of his career, he interviewed hundreds more couples\u2014and then hundreds of their children\u2014until he retired in 1986.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When my father died in 2002, I inherited 25 boxes of his files on interracial marriage in Chicago\u2014a treasure trove of rare interviews, newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, and handwritten notes.\u00a0 I found in my possession an untapped archive of extraordinary potential to reveal insights into racial identity and relations in the United States, and I believe I am uniquely qualified to undertake this investigation.\u00a0 I want to write the book my father never completed from my perspective\u2014as his daughter, whose childhood was dominated by his passion for recording the stories of interracial couples; as the child of interracial parents, who grew up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyde_Park,_Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Hyde Park<\/a> during the social upheavals of the 1960s; and as a legal scholar and sociologist who has devoted her own career to the study of race and the elimination of racism&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.sas.upenn.edu\/content\/inaugral-provosts-lecture-diversity-dorothy-roberts\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interracial Marriage and the Civil Rights Revolution: A Personal Journey The University of Pennsylvania Provost presents The Inaugural Provost\u2019s Lecture on Diversity University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School Room 110 2013-11-13, 17:00-19:00 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,394,20],"tags":[10148,1272,259,16491],"class_list":["post-34923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-dorothy-e-roberts","tag-dorothy-roberts","tag-marriage","tag-robert-e-t-roberts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}