Can the Subaltern Play and Speak or Just be Played With?

2009 ◽  
pp. 938-955
Author(s):  
David J. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Video Game ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Racial Discourse ◽  
Post Civil Rights ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter examines and responds to the silencing, resistance to any intrusion of questions about race and racism, and overall erasure of race from the debates and broader discourse concerning video game culture. It not only provides insight into the nature and logics guiding claims of colorblindness, but also connects the ideologies and culture of denial to the broader racial discourse of post-civil rights America. Hoping to inspire debate and transformative knowledge sharing, this chapter additionally offers a textually-based racial analysis of Outlaw Volleyball as an example of the type of critical examination required to move beyond a culture that often reduces bodies and voices of people of color to objects of gaze, ridicule, and consumption while denying any sorts of criticism and questions regarding the racial meaning and texts evident within much of today’s gaming.

Postracial Resistance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralina L. Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Strategic Ambiguity ◽  
Black Women Writers ◽  
The Media ◽  
Audience Ethnography

Postracial Resistance: Black Women and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity looks at how, in the first Black First Lady era, African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse—the media-propagated notion that race and race-based discrimination are over, and that race and racism no longer affect the everyday lives of both Whites and people of color—in order to resist its very tenets. Black women’s resistance to disenfranchisement has a long history in the U.S., including struggles for emancipation, suffrage, and de jure and de facto civil rights. In the Michelle Obama era, some minoritized subjects used a different, more individual form of resistance by negotiating through strategic ambiguity. Joseph listens to and watches Black women in three different places in media culture: she uses textual analysis to read the strategies of the Black women celebrities themselves; she uses production analysis to harvest insights from interviews with Black women writers, producers, and studio lawyers; and she uses audience ethnography to engage Black women viewers negotiating through the limited representations available to them. The book arcs from critiquing individual successes that strategic ambiguity enables and the limitations it creates for Black women celebrities, to documenting the way performing strategic ambiguity can (perhaps) unintentionally devolve into playing into racism from the perspective of Black women television professionals and younger viewers.

Chadors, Feminists, Terror

2011 ◽  
Vol 637 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Chan-Malik
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
World Order ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
American Media ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Post Civil Rights

On March 8, 1979, Iranian women took to the streets of Tehran for International Women’s Day. This article examines American media representations of the weeklong protests and explores how the event occasioned the emergence of a distinctly American—and deeply racialized—“discourse of the veil,” in which “Islam” was rendered a national catchphrase for terror and the figure of the “Poor Muslim Woman” entered U.S. cultural discourse as a symbol of a new world order. Through analysis of U.S. media coverage, this piece tracks how discourses of second-wave feminism, a post–civil rights rhetoric of racial and cultural pluralism, and late–Cold War logics of secularism and liberal democracy intersected to create a racial-orientalist discourse of the veil, which would subsequently be deployed to justify U.S. military aggression in the Middle East while perpetuating state violence against women, immigrants, and people of color throughout the 1980s and into the post-9/11 era.

scholarly journals Disrupting the Big Lie: Higher Education and Whitelash in a Post/Colorblind Era

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 486
Author(s):  
Melvin A. Whitehead ◽  
Zak Foste ◽  
Antonio Duran ◽  
Tenisha Tevis ◽  
Nolan L. Cabrera
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
White People ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Racial Stratification ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Public ◽  
American Society ◽  
Post Civil Rights

James Baldwin (1998) described whiteness as “the big lie” of American society where the belief in the inherent superiority of white people allowed for, emboldened, and facilitated violence against People of Color. In the post-Civil Rights era, scholars reframed whiteness as an invisible, hegemonic social norm, and a great deal of education scholarship continues to be rooted in this metaphor of invisibility. However, Leonardo (2020) theorized that in a post-45 era of “whitelash” (Embrick et al., 2020), “post-colorblindness” is more accurate to describe contemporary racial stratification whereby whiteness is both (a) more visible and (b) increasingly appealing to perceived injuries of “reverse racism.” From this perspective, we offer three theoretical concepts to guide the future of whiteness in education scholarship. Specifically, we argue that scholars critically studying whiteness in education must explicitly: (1) address the historicity of whiteness, (2) analyze the public embrace of whiteness, and (3) emphasize the material consequences of whiteness on the lives of People of Color. By doing this, we argue that critical scholars of race in higher education will more clearly understand the changing nature of whiteness while avoiding the analytical trap of invisibility that is decreasingly relevant.

Exploring genomes with a game engine

2014 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 443-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremiah J. Shepherd ◽  
Lingxi Zhou ◽  
William Arndt ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
W. Jim Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Linear Structure ◽  
Structural Data ◽  
Game Engine ◽  
3D Genome ◽  
Genome Viewer ◽  
A Genome ◽  
Visualization Techniques ◽  
Insight Into

More and more evidence indicates that the 3D conformation of eukaryotic genomes is a critical part of genome function. However, due to the lack of accurate and reliable 3D genome structural data, this information is largely ignored and most of these studies have to use information systems that view the DNA in a linear structure. Visualizing genomes in real time 3D can give researchers more insight, but this is fraught with hardware limitations since each element contains vast amounts of information that cannot be processed on the fly. Using a game engine and sophisticated video game visualization techniques enables us to construct a multi-platform real-time 3D genome viewer. The game engine-based viewer achieves much better rendering speed and can handle much larger amounts of data compared to our previous implementation using OpenGL. Combining this viewer with 3D genome models from experimental data could provide unprecedented opportunities to gain insight into the conformation–function relationships of a genome.

A Struggle for Heritage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher N. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Communities Of Color

A Struggle for Heritage draws on extensive archaeological, archival, and oral historical research and sets a remarkable standard for projects that engage a descendant community left out of the dominant narrative. Matthews demonstrates how archaeology can be an activist voice for a vulnerable population’s civil rights as he brings attention to the continuous, gradual, and effective economic assault on people of color living in a traditional neighborhood amid gentrification. Providing examples of multiple approaches to documenting hidden histories and silenced pasts, this study is a model for public and professional efforts to include and support the preservation of historic communities of color.

Distributed Cognition and Temporal Knowledge in League of Legends

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Jason Ginsberg Reitman
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Temporal Information ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
The University ◽  
League Of Legends ◽  
Insight Into

Elite video game competition provides a setting for studying how digitally connected teams handle massive amounts of information that no individual could manage on their own. This article discusses observations of the University of California, Irvine's scholarship League of Legends teams' practices and competitions from fall 2016 through spring 2017. The observations explore the nature of distributed cognition of time and temporal information in a high-pressure, competitive environment. The capacity and strategies of these teams to maintain high levels of coordination, while sitting at desktops for hours at a time, can provide insight into how other kinds of teams might learn to collaborate skillfully in networked settings.

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