BlackAutMedia | Orientalism, The Gerudo, and Legend of Zelda | SWANA Representation in Gaming @BlackAutMedia | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
00:00 Introduction
03:06 What is Racial Coding? (The Deku and Cannibal Horror)
06:13 Orientalism
09:22 Ganondorf - The Wicked Man of the Desert
13:31 Sav'aaq Colorism and the Othering of the Gerudo
20:40 The "Good" Arab and the Conditional Humanity of the Gerudo
31:02 The Vai Outfit - Harems, Veiled Women, and Belly Dancers
35:09 Staggeringly Neutral - Link and the Gerudo as Queer Expression (Why James Somerton is wrong)
46:06 Swapping and Shopping: Japanese Media
53:37 Orientalism of the Mummy - Dehydrated Ganon
01:02:13 The Native Zonai - The Source of the Right Arm
01:10:21 The Myth of Native Extinction
01:16:20 The Brown Body and the White Mind
01:22:36 Link Can Make it - Community Vs Saviorism
01:31:41 Divine Right to Rule
01:38:40 Japanese History and Zelda (Shinto in Zelda Lore)
01:46:22 Gameplay First - Zelda and Storytelling
01:53:23 Closing Thoughts
01:58:16 Works Cited/Credits


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Works Cited List: https://justpaste.it/dyo6r/pdf