Best Of: Mixed Marriage Project / How Racism Costs Everyone
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From WHYY in Philadelphia, this is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Tanya Mosley. Today we talk with scholar Dorothy Roberts. Her father was a white anthropologist who studied interracial marriages, and her mother was a black woman from Jamaica. Roberts always assumed her parents' relationship.
inspired her father's scholarly focus. But that changed after he died, and she found boxes of interviews he conducted with interracial couples dating back to the 1930s, decades before he met her mother. Now I knew it wasn't that his falling in love with my mother and marrying her motivated him to do this research. It might have been the opposite. We also hear from historian Heather McGee.
Her book, The Sum of Us, examines a question at the heart of American life. Why do so many Americans believe that progress for one group means loss for another? And David Biancooley talks about some TV shows he's been catching up on. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend. This is Fresh Air Weekend.
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