Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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!