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Solidarity. . . Forever? Teaching Labor and Race at a Predominantly White and Emerging Hispanic Serving Institution with Games

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  • Robert Haggar

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In the past year, I have utilized two series of games to teach a predominantly white classroom the barriers that race plays to labor organizing. Students play Prisoner’s Dilemma and Stag-Hunt games, without and with player inequality. Player inequality is designed to mirror power asymmetry in the abstract but also white supremacy specifically by mirroring scenarios in Noel Ignatiev’s posthumous memoir of his time at the Gary Works— Acceptable Men . Though players are predisposed to cooperation, inequality between players strains solidaristic play. This cooperation exceeds that found in Acceptable Men , and students are encouraged to reflect upon why this may be the case. JEL Classification : A22, J15, J51, Z13

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  • Robert Haggar, 2025. "Solidarity. . . Forever? Teaching Labor and Race at a Predominantly White and Emerging Hispanic Serving Institution with Games," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 57(3), pages 495-502, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:57:y:2025:i:3:p:495-502
    DOI: 10.1177/04866134241284076
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    • A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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