Maisha Wester

Maisha is a professor in American Cultural Studies, Black Diaspora Studies, Film Studies and Gothic literature. “I specialize in Black Diasporic Gothic and Horror, racial representation in Gothic Literature and Horror Film, and socio-political uses of Gothic and Horror tropes in discussions about race. In simpler words, I specialize in how fiction and society reduce real people to figures of monstrosity.” Coded Black is a game which teaches the long, horrible, contradictory, and illogical history of anti-Blackness and its nightmarish consequences in the US and UK. It's an experience designed to be difficult—mentally and emotionally. Drawing from primary sources, historical records, and scholarly analysis, Coded Black offers a journey through past atrocities and moments of triumph.