Category: Anti-Blackness / regressive characterizations

  • Freedom!

    Developer: MECCPublisher: MECCRelease Year: 1992Platform: Apple IIGenre: SimulationTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, narrative themes, Mechanics, Black NPCs, Anti-Blackness/regressive characterizations Taking the role of an enslaved African American in the southern United States during 1830, the player must escape a plantation and get to one of the free northern states. interviews and other media scholarship Return to…

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  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    Developer: Rockstar NorthPublisher: Rockstar EntertainmentRelease Year: 2004Platform: Android/FireOS/iOS/Mac/PS2/PS3/Quest2/WIN/Win Phone/Xbox 360/XboxGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Narrative themes; Black NPCs; fandom / community / reception; Voice acting; politics/ideology/history; Significant Black cultural mods You play as Carl “CJ” Johnson who, after returning home after his mother is murdered, is drawn back into his former life as a…

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  • Grand Theft Auto V

    Developer: Rockstar Games, Rockstar NorthPublisher: Rockstar GamesRelease Year: 2013Platform: PS3/PS4/Win/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs; Voice acting/motion capture, politics/ideology/history, Narrative themes, Anti-Blackness/ regressive characterizations; mechanics; fandom / community / reception Grand Theft Auto V is an open world game set in Los Santos, a sprawling sun-soaked metropolis struggling to stay afloat…

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  • Mafia III

    Developer: Hangar 13Publisher: 2K GamesRelease Year: 2016Platform: Mac/PS4/Win/Xbox OneGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; voice acting; Black cultural traditions; politics/ ideology/ history; Narrative themes; Black NPCs; Intersectionality; fandom/community/reception; Anti-Blackness; mechanics Set in New Bordeaux that is surging with change in response to the Civil Rights movement, Lincoln Clay is double-crossed and left for dead…

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  • 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand

    Developer: Swordfish StudioPublisher: THQ/Vivendi UniversalRelease Year: 2009Platform: PS3/Xbox 360Genre: Third Person Shooter, ActionTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs, Voice acting/motion capture; Black cultural traditions; Anti-Blackness/ regressive characterizations Set in an urban warzone, after 50 Cent and G-Unit perform a rap concert, they are robbed of their cash, paid in a diamond skull, which is stolen…

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