{"id":60628,"date":"2021-03-09T02:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60628"},"modified":"2021-03-09T02:41:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T02:41:31","slug":"royal-familys-post-racial-fantasy-unravels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60628","title":{"rendered":"Royal family’s ‘post-racial’ fantasy unravels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Royal family’s ‘post-racial’ fantasy unravels<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Cable News Network (CNN)<\/a>
\n2021-03-08<\/p>\n

Kehinde Andrews<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Black Studies
\nBirmingham City University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nPrince Harry, Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Sussex depart after their wedding ceremony at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle on May 19, 2018.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

(CNN) When Harry and Meghan walked down the aisle, surrounded by examples of #BlackExcellence<\/a>, and being serenaded by a gospel choir on May 19, 2018, it was meant to mark a new era in race relations. Even the royal family was being “modernized<\/a>,” dragged into the 21st century showing just how far we have come. Right wing papers like the Daily Mail<\/em> even heralded the Markles’ remarkable achievement of going from “cotton slaves to royalty<\/a>” in just 150 years. The only surprise is how quickly this post-racial fantasy unraveled, culminating in Sunday’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey<\/a>, revealing the harrowing time Markle says she endured as a serving royal…<\/p>\n

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

The only surprise is how quickly this post-racial fantasy unraveled, culminating in Sunday’s tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, revealing the harrowing time Markle says she endured as a serving royal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,10],"tags":[3142,23583,20717,28692],"class_list":["post-60628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-cnn","tag-kehinde-andrews","tag-meghan-markle","tag-prince-harry-duke-of-sussex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60628","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=60628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60631,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60628\/revisions\/60631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}