Revealing Britain's systemic racism the case of Meghan Markle and the royal family

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter Overviews
A Note on Terminology for North American Readers
Acknowledgments
1 Systemic Racism: Britain Now and Then
	Introduction
	Systemic Racism and the White Racial Frame
	Systemic and Foundational Racism
		White British Denials of the White Racial Framing of Meghan Markle
		Defense of Empire and Other Contemporary British Denials of White Racism
		The 2020 Black Lives Matter Movement and Racial Injustices in british Institutions
	A Powerful Constitutional Monarchy: A Brief History
	Who Owns Britain? Racial and Class Lessons From the Coronavirus Pandemic
	Systemic Racism: A Brief History of British Imperialism
	Legacies of a Racialized Empire: Contemporary Racial Discrimination
	The Enduring Significance of the First Lords of Modern Predatory Capitalism
		The Legacies of British Slavery and Colonialism
		Slavery: Foundations of Modern British Capitalism
		White Mythical Tales of the Abolition of Slavery and Persisting systemic Racism
	Postcards From a Mythologized British Past: White Saviors
		A Comparative Note On Slavery in the UK and the USA
	Mythical English National Culture: The Politics of Race and Nation
	Conclusion
	Notes
2 Straight Out of the White Racial Frame
	Introduction
	British Nationalist Consciousness: White Fetishization, White Amnesia, and White Denial
	Early White Racial Framing: Rationalizing Slavery and Empire
		Eighteenth-Century Racial Framing
		Nineteenth-Century Racial Framing
		Later Prophets of British Imperialism: Race and Empire
	Anti-Black Framing
		Animalistic and Related Imagery
		Criminality
		Gendered Racism
		Cultural Decline
		White Spaces and Double-standards
	Conclusion
	Notes
3 Post-Racial Duchess or Trophy Wife of Diversity?
	Introduction
	A Post-racial Duchess?
		Personification of a Post-racial Duchess Via Her Family Tree
	From Trophy Wife of Diversity to Harry’s Misfortune
		The Myth of a Post-racial Society
		Claims of Racial Transcension
		2016 and 2020 Us Presidential Elections
		Individualistic Understandings of Racism Versus Awareness of Systemic Racism
		Disapproving of Markle
		Royal Protocol: Expedient Paths to Dominant Racial Framing
		Pushing Meghan Markle: Internal and External Racist Forces
	Conclusion
	Notes
4 White Men Ruling and the Problem With Meghan Markle
	Introduction
	Racialized and Gendered Reactions to Meghan Markle
	The Color and Gender of Contemporary British Power
		Royals and the Nobility: Male-preference Primogeniture
		Upper-Level Leadership: Realities and Recommendations
		White-Male Arrogance
		Prince Andrew: Elite-white-male Entitlement
	More Wizards of Oligarchy: Elite White Men Behind the Curtain
	Conclusion
	Notes
5 Feminist Counter-framer and anti-racist Counter-framer: Disrupter of Elite White Dominance
	Introduction
	Intersectionality: Meghan Markle’s Enduring Reality
		Meghan Markle’s Recurring Advocacy For Women
		The “intersectional Everywoman”?
		The Exotification of Meghan Markle
		The Fetishization of Meghan Markle
	Meghan Markle, the Feminist
		The Monarchy’s Feminist Antithesis
		Transforming the Individual Versus Transforming Society
	Meghan Markle: The Black Counter-framer
		Black Counter-framing in the Uk: A Brief History
		A Black Counter-framed Royal Wedding
		Backlash/Whitelash: White Royal Spaces, White Royal Racists
		More Backlash/whitelash: Defending White Royal Spaces and Royal Racists
	Conclusion
	Notes
6 “Where Is This Racism You Keep Talking About?”: Sincere Fictions of the Virtuous White Self
	Introduction
	Sincere White Fictions and Other White-racist and gendered-racist Framings
	Media Mistreatment and Black Counter-Framing
	More Media Mistreatment and Counter-Framing
		A Note On Persisting Systemic Racism
	White Amnesia and Revisionist History
		Blacks in Roman Britain
		Blacks in Eighteenth-century England
		Doctor Who: Upsetting the White Frame On Contemporary Television
	Racial Framing By Meghan Markle’s In-laws
		British Royalty’s Links to European Nazism
		People’s Uprisings and Elite Reactions: More Fascist Collaboration
		Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
		Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
		Prince Andrew, Duke of York
		Charles, Prince of Wales
		Queen Elizabeth Ii’s Mother: The Queen Mother
	Rebelling Against Anachronistic Framing and Morality: Justin Welby, the White Archbishop of Canterbury
	Conclusion
	Notes
7 Concluding Thoughts: The Royals, British Racism, and the Coronavirus Pandemic
	Introduction
	Perpetual Foreigners, Racialized Maskaphobia, and Hate Crimes
	British Royals During the Coronavirus Pandemic
	Collective Forgetting: Whitewashing the Past and the Present
	Lessons of the Coronavirus Crisis: Some Humans Are More Human Than Others
	Pillorying of Meghan Markle Amid the Coronavirus Crisis
	Conclusion
	Notes
Index