MITH's Digital Dialogues

Buffoons, Goons, and Pixelated Minstrels: The Digital Story That Games Tell


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As racial projects, video games legitimize white masculinity and hegemonic ideology through the ‘othering’ process. This is performed via pixelated minstrelsy by depicting Black and Brown bodies as objects to be destroyed and women as bodies to be dominated. The mediated story of Black characters is limited and situated within buffoonery (comedy) or crime

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