Category: Anti-Blackness / regressive characterizations
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…