On Thinking Playfully vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1 Decolonizing Play 21
2 Play as Affect 41
3 Play as Capture 55
4 Torture and the Black American Experience 71
5 Recentering Blackness in Games and Play 85
Conclusion: Repairing Play 101
Notes 111
References 119
Index 127

"Repairing Play tries to wrest the narrative of play away from white, European notions that rely primarily on pleasure by including different connotations of play that do not rely on the access to the conditions of leisure"--

Aaron Trammell is Assistant Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analog Game Studies and Multimedia Editor of the journal Sounding Out!