[Commlist] new book: The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities

We would like to announce a new publication from New York University 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*The Race Card***

 From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities

*Tara Fickle***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/the-race-card_*

As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows 
of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has 
gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding 
of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese 
Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model minority 
myth and the globalization of Asian labor, Tara Fickle shows how games 
and game theory shaped fictions of race upon which the nation relies. 
Drawing from a wide range of literary and critical texts, analog and 
digital games, journalistic accounts, marketing campaigns, and archival 
material,  Fickle illuminates the ways Asian Americans have had to fit 
the roles, play the game, and follow the rules to be seen as valuable in 
the US.

Exploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations, /The 
Race Card /charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our 
focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to 
inhabit new identities, and toward the ways that games are used as 
instruments of soft power to advance top-down political agendas. 
Bridging the intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video 
games and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric, Tara Fickle 
reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the predominance of 
game tropes in national culture. /The Race Card/ reveals this 
relationship as one of deep ideological and historical intimacy: how the 
games we play have seeped into every aspect of our lives in both 
monotonous and malevolent ways.*__*


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