"When keeping it real goes wrong": Resident evil 5, racial representation, and gamers

Games and Culture

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 429-452

  Brock, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Black; gender and videogames; online racial identity; race and ethnicity; race and videogames; Resident evil 5; Sheva Alomar; Whiteness online

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051978035     PISSN: 15554120     EISSN: 15554139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1555412011402676     Document Type: Article

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