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Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice Kishonná L. Gray and David J. Leonard, eds. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2018. Acknowledgments, introduction, list of contributors, and index. 306 pp. $24 paper. ISBN: 9780295744179
Although gaming is not often associated with challenges to the status quo, to oppression, or to social injustice, the contributors in Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice demonstrate that game developers, individual gamers, and communities can use games and game spaces to offer just that. This collection of essays seeks to highlight the role that gaming has in perpetuating violence, racism, and sexism while also celebrating the individuals and games who seek change in the content of gaming and the industry. Ranging from chapters focusing on LGBTQ+ spaces in World of Warcraft to the realities of sexism within the current game industry, Woke Gaming examines the various ways that video games can be used to challenge social injustices. The work is timely because it examines gaming in...