Group of Black people filling the streets with a Black woman wearing a backpack.

FURTHER RESOURCES

Coded Black features an array of primary source material curated from various historical archives. Yet the game only includes a small selection of the available material. These pages include more source material as well as the secondary/ theoretical material informing the discussion of race formation and critiques of anti-Blackness which underpin the game.

Please note, the lists on these pages is by no means comprehensive; this is merely a listing of some of the additional materials documenting and critiquing this long, nightmarish history.

Criticism/ Theory

Historical Sources

The History of Black Writing

21st Century Headlines

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing slave quarters on a plantation with a series of small wooden slave houses.

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a school hallway and an open door looking into a classroom.

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a city with high rise buildings.

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a kitchen scene with a family who are glowing figures.

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a city at night with a park and tables outside a restaurant.

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a dark movie theatre with the film about to start.

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a library with a burning figure in the background

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a city scene and a park lit with rays of sunlight.