Meta-Tuning Justice
Game Design and Black Youth Agency
$233.95
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2026
Summary
Exploring how Black youth are reshaping game design to dismantle stereotypes and spark social change
In the early 2000s, digital gaming rose to cultural and economic prominence. Communities of color, however, and especially Black youth, were largely excluded from gaming culture. The rare Black character in games tended to reinforce stereotypes, while racial bias was often surreptitiously embedded in game design platforms—what decolonial scholars call “whitestream” com…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781625349378 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1625349378 |
| Author: | Laquana Cooke |
| Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Imprint: | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2026 |
| Weight: | 481g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Activist Studies of Science & Technology |
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“A rare and rigorous account of how games operate as cognitive and social systems, not merely as texts or technologies. Cooke shows how players learn what futures are imaginable through play, and how those learned expectations can be disrupted, redesigned, and reoriented. This work provides both a sharp diagnostic framework and a generative set of tools for analyzing and redesigning the cognitive and social work games perform.“—Constance Steinkuehler, Games Learning Society (GLS) Center Co-Director, University of California, Irvine
“Laquana Cooke has written a fantastic book that contributes to our understanding of racial equity in teaching and learning by making meaningful connections between game studies, Science and Technology Studies, and educational research.“—Michael Lachney, Michigan State University
About The Author
Laquana Cooke
Laquana Cooke is professor of digital rhetoric in the English Department at West Chester University and founding director of iCamp Media Academy. Her work has appeared in journals such as Technical Communication Quarterly, Changing English, Game Studies, and ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
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