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NAME:Dorothy Roberts, "The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, R
 ace and Family"
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LOCATION:VU Campus, OZW building, 1109, Alma 1 & 2, De Boelelaan, 1081 HV, Amsterdam
SUMMARY:Dorothy Roberts, "The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, R
 ace and Family"
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <html> <body> <p><p>On 30 October 2026 w
 e're pleased to welcome Dorothy Roberts to Vrije Universiteit Amsterd
 am to present her new book, The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of L
 ove, Race and Family.</p></p> <p>Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Wei
 ss University Professor of Law &amp; Sociology at the University of P
 ennsylvania, founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science &
 amp; Society, and a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. Her influential books incl
 ude Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, Fatal Invention and Torn
  Apart. They have shaped debates on reproductive justice, family regu
 lation, policing, science and medicine.<br><br>In this memoir she tur
 ns to love, race and family. Two leading Dutch scholars will respond 
 to the book:<br>Gloria Wekker, emeritus professor of Gender Studies a
 t Utrecht University and author of White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colo
 nialism and Race, and Guno Jones, Anton de Kom Professor of the Histo
 ry of Colonialism and Slavery at VU Amsterdam, whose work includes th
 e politics of "mixedness" in colonial and postcolonial Europe.<br><br
 >The afternoon is chaired by Betty de Hart. It will take place in the
  OZW Building, Almazaal 1 + 2, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.&nbsp;</p
 ><p>Please send an email to <a href="mailto:secretariaat.sb.rch@vu.nl
 "><strong>secretariaat.sb.rch@vu.nl</strong></a> to register for this
  event!<br></p><p><br></p> </body> </html>
DESCRIPTION: On 30 October 2026 we're pleased to welcome Dorothy Rober
 ts to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to present her new book, The Mixed
  Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race and Family. Dorothy Roberts
  is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law &amp; Sociology a
 t the University of Pennsylvania, founding director of the Penn Progr
 am on Race, Science &amp; Society, and a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. Her i
 nfluential books include Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, Fat
 al Invention and Torn Apart. They have shaped debates on reproductive
  justice, family regulation, policing, science and medicine.<br><br>I
 n this memoir she turns to love, race and family. Two leading Dutch s
 cholars will respond to the book:<br>Gloria Wekker, emeritus professo
 r of Gender Studies at Utrecht University and author of White Innocen
 ce: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race, and Guno Jones, Anton de Kom P
 rofessor of the History of Colonialism and Slavery at VU Amsterdam, w
 hose work includes the politics of "mixedness" in colonial and postco
 lonial Europe.<br><br>The afternoon is chaired by Betty de Hart. It w
 ill take place in the OZW Building, Almazaal 1 + 2, Vrije Universitei
 t Amsterdam.&nbsp;Please send an email to <a href="mailto:secretariaa
 t.sb.rch@vu.nl"><strong>secretariaat.sb.rch@vu.nl</strong></a> to reg
 ister for this event!<br><br>
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