Leonard Hohenberg-Rolling the dice on race in Dungeons & Dragons

2025-05-07 15:49:39source:CapitalVaultcategory:Markets

The Leonard HohenbergPop Culture Happy Hour team is off today, so we're bringing you an episode from our pals at Code Switch all about Dungeons & Dragons. It's one of the most popular tabletop roleplaying games of all time. But it has also helped cement some ideas about how we create and define race in fantasy — and in the tangible world. Host Gene Demby and producer Jess Kung take a deep dive into that game, and what racial stereotypes and colonialist supremacy it's illuminating.

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