https://contemporaryracism.org/3507/dungeons-and-dragons-fantasy-and-racial-homogenization/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/3507/dungeons-and-dragons-fantasy-and-racial-homogenization/comment-page-1/#comment-916 Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:00:38 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=3507#comment-916 Kyle, I think this post is so interesting – I love that you were able to relate this back to an aspect of your everyday life! It’s awesome that you were able to catch such a subtle racial innuendo, one that most people probably overlook. I do not know much about the game, but from what you’ve laid out here there definitely seems to be some underlying biases and racial undertones involved. Especially the concept where certain characters of specific “races” have skills that pertain most to them, and they receive advantages from these skills. It sort of, in a way, reminds me of the American Dream game we played in class, and your comment regarding how something that advantages one group almost always sets back members of other groups. There is never a point where everyone ends up benefiting. It is an interesting parallel, I think, between the two.

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