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What yellowface hides: Video games, whiteness and the American racial order

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Duke Nukem 3D's and Shadow Warrior's both video games speculations concerning white subjectivity and yellowface performance call for an investigation into the value of performing as a racial other for the sake of game play. Yellowface directly questions cultural studies' investments in representations and identity by exposing the dangers of analyses that uncritically use notions of cultural identity, race and subjectivity.

Author: Shiu, Anthony Sze-Fai
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 2006
Criticism and interpretation, Computer war games, Wargame, Shadow Warrior (Action game), Duke Nukem 3D (Action game)

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Kids' approaches to whiteness in racially distinct summer day camps

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The ways in which preadolescents engaged in different interactional approaches to whiteness in racially distinct summer camps is explored. It is thus found that the racial composition of a context is a key to encourage recognition that white racial subjectivities as the racial subjectives of color.

Author: Moore, Valerie Ann
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Name: The Sociological Quarterly
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0038-0253
Year: 2003

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The impact of peer, family and school on delinquency: A study of at-risk Chinese adolescents in Honk Kong

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The relationship among family, peer and school factor on delinquency among Chinese adolescents is explored. Negative peer influence is the most salient predictor of delinquency.

Author: Davis, Cindy, Tang, Catherine, Ko, Janet
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: International Social Work
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0020-8728
Year: 2004
China, Age groups

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Subjects list: United States, Evaluation, Racism, Teenagers, Youth
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