{"id":55342,"date":"2017-12-04T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55342"},"modified":"2017-12-04T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T02:08:00","slug":"racial-disharmony-the-overestimated-post-racial-power-of-meghan-markle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55342","title":{"rendered":"Racial (Dis)Harmony: The Overestimated Post-racial Power of Meghan Markle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchmedia.org\/article\/meghan-markle-no-post-racial-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Racial (Dis)Harmony: The Overestimated Post-racial Power of Meghan Markle<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchmedia.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bitch Media<\/a><br \/>\n2017-12-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sgbuggs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dr. Shantel Gabrieal Buggs<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Florida State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchmedia.org\/article\/meghan-markle-no-post-racial-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bitchmedia.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/article_page_featured_image\/public\/Meghan%20Markle%20and%20Prince%20Harry%20main%20image.jpg?itok=mPhOyLku\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newsjsBW\/status\/936482001271398400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Twitter\/newsjsBW<\/em><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>This week, the engagement of American actress Meghan Markle to British royal <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_Harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> set social media ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>Race is at the center of this internet firestorm: Markle is biracial, with a Black mother and white father. As a Black and white mixed-race woman who <a href=\"https:\/\/shantelgbuggs.com\/research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studies multiracial identity and interracial relationships<\/a>, the online debates over Markle and her fianc\u00e9 have been both perplexing and unsurprising. Over the last year, Markle\u2019s racial background has drawn negative press in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britain<\/a>. Last November, Prince Harry publicly called out the barely veiled racism and sexism in the media coverage of their relationship. Despite this treatment, their engagement is viewed as an opportunity to change what it means to be British and royal, with American fans celebrating a \u201creal Black princess\u201d who will bring <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/blackgirlmagic?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BlackGirlMagic<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_royal_family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">royal family<\/a> and the seemingly stale royal wedding traditions. Several essays have been written about what Markle\u2019s presence means for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British monarchy<\/a> and the broader racial politics of the West&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchmedia.org\/article\/meghan-markle-no-post-racial-power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An assumed post-racial exceptionalism is often projected onto mixed-race people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,394,10],"tags":[7510,20717,27720,27709,25803,25802,25801],"class_list":["post-55342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-bitch-media","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-henry-of-wales","tag-shantel-buggs","tag-shantel-g-buggs","tag-shantel-gabrieal-buggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55342","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=55342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55343,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55342\/revisions\/55343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}