{"id":1021,"date":"2021-02-03T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2025-01-16T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T21:02:25","slug":"invited-talk-playing-the-game-of-life-on-hard-mode-racism-in-video-games-and-our-discussions-about-games-lets-talk-about-it-discussion-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/2021\/02\/03\/invited-talk-playing-the-game-of-life-on-hard-mode-racism-in-video-games-and-our-discussions-about-games-lets-talk-about-it-discussion-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Invited Talk: \u201cPlaying the Game (of Life) on Hard Mode: Racism in Video Games and our Discussions about Games.\u201d Let\u2019s Talk About It Discussion Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lets-talk-about-it-webslide.jpg?resize=1024%2C307&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lets-talk-about-it-webslide.jpg?resize=1024%2C307&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lets-talk-about-it-webslide.jpg?resize=300%2C90&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lets-talk-about-it-webslide.jpg?resize=768%2C230&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lets-talk-about-it-webslide.jpg?resize=1536%2C461&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lets-talk-about-it-webslide.jpg?resize=1320%2C396&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lets-talk-about-it-webslide.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On February 3, 2021, Dr. Mike Piero facilitated a discussion about video games and systemic racism as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tri-c.edu\/student-life\/multicultural-centers\/talk-about-it.html\">Cuyahoga Community College&#8217;s Let&#8217;s Talk About It series<\/a>. Titled &#8220;Playing the Game (of Life) on Hard Mode: Racism in Video Games and our Discussions about Games,&#8221; the presentation delved into how video games respond to, reproduce, and challenge ongoing systemic racism in America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 3, 2021, Dr. Mike Piero facilitated a discussion about video games and systemic racism as part of Cuyahoga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,47,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-studies","category-speaking-engagement","category-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mikepiero.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lets-talk-about-it-webslide.jpg?fit=1680%2C504&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikepiero.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}