Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Games and Culture
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Race-Based Fantasy Realm: Essentialism in the World of Warcraft Games and Culture Volume 7, Number 1 (January 2012) pages 48-71 DOI: 10.1177/1555412012440308 Melissa J. Monson Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado This article explores issues of racial essentialism and ethnicity in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (WoW). The fantasy world…
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Digital Elves as a Racial Other in Video Games: Acknowledgment and Avoidance Games and Culture Volume 7, Number 5 (September 2012) pages 375-396 DOI: 10.1177/1555412012454224 Nathaniel Poor Brooklyn, New York, USA Elves are a long-standing cultural trope in the West, where they have often represented the other and fears associated with otherness. Elves continue to…