selectparks - Race, Sports Video Games and Becoming the Other

Discusses race in sports video games and argues that these virtual competitions replicate the ideologies and nature of 19th century minstrelsy. The resemblance to minstrelsy transcends the fact that the players competing are mostly white "cyber athletes" and unfolds in ideologies, images and power relations that create a high-tech form of blackface.

David J. Leonard, High Tech Blackface

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