Roll for Research

  Found a phenomenal dissertation on Racism and Dungeons & Dragons. Rather, my girlfriend found it and told me about it. I think even sent me the link for it. But, I was right from my first blog, I did hear the name Roll to Save vs. Prejudice, and it was from this.
  Being a dissertation, it is a phenomenally long paper. 93 pages, including a title page, acknowledgements, and a table of contents (which in itself tells you how long this paper actually is). I have not gotten through it yet, because its just about crunch time in the semester. I will get through the rest of it while working on the Website portion of my final.
  "Taking on a different racial identity in the real world had never appealed to me, and I rolled my eyes at my cohorts who appropriated African American culture. It seemed idiotic and offensive to me for a bunch of white, middle-class kids to pretend to be “street” or “thug” without experiencing any of the hardships that had produced those identities. Clearly, though, pretending to be an elf was different. Fantasy races were something else entirely. Or so I’d decided" (Clements, 1)
  This one quote already gives me the feeling that this is going to be a strong resource for my final and I honestly feel like I'm just going to enjoy it as a read. I'll probably run a full synopsis on it for a different blog post, but it may be after the website itself is done.
  Oh yeah, I'm building a website for this project. It's going to be pretty cool. I'll keep all of  you lovely reader(s) posted on when it's up.

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