Race and Culture

Framing the Other Within: Sebhat of Sadai, Narrative Inversion, and Ethiopian Manuscript Aesthetics in Pentiment

Blair Apgar June 5, 2025 8Comments

By Blair Apgar (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania) “I know Tassing seems big to you, but the world is so much bigger than we can imagine.” – Brother Sebhat, Pentiment As…

MAMG25 Race and Culture

L’era dei rumors e il razzismo – Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Simone Vitolo June 5, 2025 9Comments

By Simone Vitolo (University of Modena) (English Translation at foot of page) Il primo Kingdom Come: Deliverance, fu oggetto di critiche a causa della totale assenza di persone nere .…

MAMG25 Race and Culture

Globalities and Regionalities in Roleplaying across Culture and Race in Black Desert Online

Johansen Quijano June 5, 2025 6Comments

By Johansen Quijano (Tarrant County College, Trinity River Campus) Black Desert Online (BDO)’s struggles with globalities vs regionalities stem from how it draws from Western and East Asian aesthetic traditions,…

Framing the Other Within: Sebhat of Sadai, Narrative Inversion, and Ethiopian Manuscript Aesthetics in Pentiment

L’era dei rumors e il razzismo – Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Globalities and Regionalities in Roleplaying across Culture and Race in Black Desert Online

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