Winner, 2020 American Book Award, given by the Before Columbus
Foundation How games have been used to establish and combat Asian
American racial stereotypes As Pokémon Go reshaped our
neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping
the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory
played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial
formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and
Japanese American internment to the model minority myth and the
globalization of Asian labor, Tara Fickle shows how games and game
theory shaped fictions of race upon which the nation relies.
Drawing from a wide range of literary and critical texts, analog
and digital games, journalistic accounts, marketing campaigns, and
archival material, Fickle illuminates the ways Asian Americans have
had to fit the roles, play the game, and follow the rules to be
seen as valuable in the US. Exploring key moments in the formation
of modern US race relations, The Race Card charts a new course in
gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as
vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new
identities, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments
of soft power to advance top-down political agendas. Bridging the
intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video games
and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric, Tara Fickle
reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the
predominance of game tropes in national culture. The Race Card
reveals this relationship as one of deep ideological and historical
intimacy: how the games we play have seeped into every aspect of
our lives in both monotonous and malevolent ways.
General
Imprint: |
New York University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Postmillennial Pop |
Release date: |
November 2019 |
Authors: |
Tara Fickle
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4798-0595-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
1-4798-0595-5 |
Barcode: |
9781479805952 |
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