Media watch: Commonwealth gains a new championArchived Message
Posted by margo on February 18, 2019, 7:18 am
Meghan Markle - self-described feminist, anti-racist, humanitarian and activist - becomes a great case study for the treatment of intersectionality (the fact she's a bi-racial woman sets her ahead of Harry or Kate Middleton on the scale, for example) , race, gender, classism and economic class in the media. When she and Prince Harry had "The Commonwealth" assigned to their activism portfolio (Meghan's dress had 53 flowers embroidered on it to represent the Empire's holdings) Commonwealth media consumers ordered in extra popcorn
Meghan Markle backs campaign to decolonise curriculum in UK universities
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excerpt Meghan Markle backs campaign to 'decolonise the curriculum' by adding more black women to university staff instead of 'male, pale, and stale' professors in her first political intervention since joining the royal family The movement Meghan is backing aims to 'confront the legacies of the empire' It's been controversial since Oxford students tried to fell 'racist' statue in 2016 At event in London this month Meghan said 'oh my God' at diversity figures The Duchess is Patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities It has now emerged that, during her January visit at City, University of London, in Islington, Meghan encouraged scholars to 'open up the conversation' about curriculum in our universities and also reacted with shock at figures showing the misrepresentation of ethnicity in professor positions in universities. The campaign she is backing has been a controversial movement since students took to the streets of Oxford in 2016 in an effort to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes, the 19th Century colonialist and slave owner, removed from one of Oxford University's colleges. It followed a similar #RhodesMustFall movement in South Africa, which succeeded in having a statue of Rhodes removed from the University of Cape Town. (ACU)