{"id":108,"date":"2023-04-06T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samanthablackmon.net\/bgarchive\/?p=108"},"modified":"2025-02-09T19:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T23:01:41","slug":"mafia-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samanthablackmon.net\/bgarchive\/mafia-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mafia III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samanthablackmon.net\/bgarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/mafia3cover.jpg?resize=639%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244\" style=\"width:560px;height:315px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samanthablackmon.net\/bgarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/mafia3cover.jpg?w=639&amp;ssl=1 639w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samanthablackmon.net\/bgarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/mafia3cover.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Developer: Hangar 13<br>Publisher: 2K Games<br>Release Year: 2016<br>Platform: Mac, PS4, WIN, Xbox One<br>Genre: Action Adventure<br>Taxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting, Black Cultural Traditions, Politics\/Ideology\/History, Narrative Themes, Black NPCs, Intersectionality, Fandom\/Community\/Reception, Anti-Blackness, Mechanics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-two-color has-four-background-color has-text-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-two-color has-four-background-color has-text-color has-background has-midsmall-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\">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 by the mob. 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href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/spawn-on-me-with-kahlief-adams\/id804065256?i=1000420134636\">Mafia III Special Part 2: Charles Webb Interview (Spawn on Me)<\/a><br><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-three-background-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-bf4e79e4714286cd99ced7e69dfd8cc3 is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">scholarship<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-link-color wp-elements-b48481997e04764aabe1053225273503\" style=\"text-transform:capitalize\"><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/26574847\">Blackmon, Samantha. \u201c\u2018Be Real Black For Me: Lincoln Clay and Luke Cage as the Heroes We Need.\u2019\u201d <em>CEA Critic<\/em>, vol. 79, no. 1, 2017.<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/samanthablackmon.net\/bgarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/berealblack.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex 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