{"id":58031,"date":"2019-05-11T15:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58031"},"modified":"2019-05-11T15:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T15:24:39","slug":"what-the-reaction-to-the-royal-baby-says-about-racial-identity-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58031","title":{"rendered":"What The Reaction To The Royal Baby Says About Racial Identity And Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

What The Reaction To The Royal Baby Says About Racial Identity And Racism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Gothamist<\/a>
\nWYNC<\/a>
\nNew York, New York
\n2019-05-10<\/p>\n

Rebecca Carroll<\/strong><\/a>, Editor of Special Projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nPrince Harry<\/a> and Meghan Duchess of Sussex<\/a> with their baby son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor<\/a> during a photocall in St George’s Hall at Windsor Castle<\/a> in Berkshire<\/a> (Shutterstock)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In the five days since Meghan Markle<\/a>, the black and biracial American who married into the British monarchy<\/a>, gave birth to her son Archie Harrison Mountbattan-Windsor<\/a>, at least two media outlets have posted blatantly racist commentary targeting the royal baby\u2019s racial identity. On Tuesday, CNN published an article by John Blake<\/a> with the headline, \u201cHow Black Will the Baby Be?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

The story unleashed a torrent of backlash on social media…<\/p>\n

…Don\u2019t get me wrong. The myth of mixed-race and racially ambiguous children as representative of hope and harmony is real. Mixed-race people are notoriously fetishized, and colorism is rampant in mainstream media and Hollywood and, well, across many industries. Dark-skinned black folks are without question discriminated against in far greater numbers than lighter-skinned and mixed-race black folks…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But the question of \u201chow black will the Royal baby be\u201d does not evoke this mythology. Rather it dares this child to be black in Jim Crow terms, which conveys all sorts of \u201cGood luck with that, buddy\u201d sentiments. It is, at best, a relegation to being less than human, and at worst, a deathwish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,414,8,10],"tags":[29755,3142,29754,3143,20717,27720,22899,29753],"class_list":["post-58031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-family","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-archie-harrison-mountbatten-windsor","tag-cnn","tag-gothamist","tag-john-blake","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry","tag-rebecca-carroll","tag-wync"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031","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=58031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58033,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031\/revisions\/58033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}