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African Americans and the Video Game Industry

Posted by kdawson on from the in-the-game-but-not-of-the-game dept.

An anonymous reader writes "African Americans spend more money and time playing video games than whites, yet only 2% of game developers are black. This past week, MTV's Multiplayer blog interviewed five black game industry professionals for their perspective on race in the industry. Intelligent Gamer summarizes and highlights portions of this lengthy series of interviews."

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  1. Re:Who cares? by Ambidisastrous · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fact: Black activists in the 1960s started calling themselves "African-American" instead of Negro in order to connect their fight for civil rights to the various independence movements in Africa happening at the same time. It caught on more over time. Malcolm X noted the term in his autobiography.

    The term "African-American"