{"id":6695,"date":"2017-12-07T23:31:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2017-12-07T23:33:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:33:54","slug":"meghan-markle-and-the-problem-with-policing-the-identity-of-mixed-race-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/07\/meghan-markle-and-the-problem-with-policing-the-identity-of-mixed-race-people\/","title":{"rendered":"News Clip: Meghan Markle and the problem with policing the identity of mixed-race people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shanon Lee, writing for The Lily, on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thelily.com\/meghan-markle-and-the-problem-with-policing-the-identity-of-mixed-race-people-fafc7b2ad454\">Meghan Markle and the problem with policing the identity of mixed-race people<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"3c1c\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">The product of an African American mother and a Dutch-Irish father, Markle identifies as mixed-race. In an essay for\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elleuk.com\/life-and-culture\/news\/a26855\/more-than-an-other\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.elleuk.com\/life-and-culture\/news\/a26855\/more-than-an-other\/\">Elle<\/a>\u00a0(and in this interview with\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allure.com\/story\/meghan-markle-racism-against-biracial-actresses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.allure.com\/story\/meghan-markle-racism-against-biracial-actresses\">Allure<\/a>) Markle addressed what it means to be biracial and work in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p id=\"14e3\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">In\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elleuk.com\/life-and-culture\/news\/a26855\/more-than-an-other\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.elleuk.com\/life-and-culture\/news\/a26855\/more-than-an-other\/\">her own words<\/a>, she is \u201ca strong, confident mixed-race woman.\u201d Yet, her personal description of her racial identity was dismissed and labeled problematic.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4c94\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">The royal engagement continues to be scrutinized through the lens of white racism and black prejudice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest of Shanon&#8217;s excellent commentary here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelily.com\/meghan-markle-and-the-problem-with-policing-the-identity-of-mixed-race-people-fafc7b2ad454\">https:\/\/thelily.com\/meghan-markle-and-the-problem-with-policing-the-identity-of-mixed-race-people-fafc7b2ad454<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanon Lee, writing for The Lily, on &#8220;Meghan Markle and the problem with policing the identity of mixed-race people&#8220;: The product of an African American mother and a Dutch-Irish father, Markle identifies as mixed-race.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,19,21,141],"tags":[121,136],"class_list":["post-6695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial","tag-popular-culture-and-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1JZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6698,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions\/6698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}