THE RACE CARD
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The Race Card
From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
Tara Fickle
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An earlier version of chapter 2 was previously published as Tara Fickle, “No-No Boy’s Dilemma: Game Theory and Japanese American Internment Literature.” Modern Fiction Studies 60.4 (Winter 2014): 740–66.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Fickle, Tara, author.
Title: The race card : from gaming technologies to model minorities / Tara Fickle.
Description: New York : New York University Press, 2018. | Series: Postmillennial pop | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018060476| ISBN 9781479868551 (cl : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781479805952 (pb : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Asian Americans—Social conditions. | Games—Social aspects—United States. | Asian Americans in popular culture. | Race discrimination—United States. | Game theory—Social aspects—United States.
Classification: LCC E184.A75 F45 2018 | DDC 305.895/073—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060476
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Ludo-Orientalism and the Gamification of Race
PART I. GAMBLING ON THE AMERICAN DREAM
The Catch: The House Always Wins
PART II. MARCO POLO IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD