TY  - ART
AU  - Blum,Scout
TI  - Rising waters: a game based on the 1927 Mississippi flood 
T2  - Scholarship and Lore: Games for Learning Series
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Mount Pleasant, MI
PB  - Central Michigan University Press
KW  - Games
KW  - Specimens
KW  - Floods
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Delta (Region)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Delta (Miss. : Region)
KW  - Educational games
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Puzzles and games
N1  - Duration: 60-90 minutes; 2-4 players; Lamaro Smith, Makiyah Alexander, artists; Ages 14 and up
N2  - It's Spring, 1927. While Americans dance the Charleston and drink bootlegged liquor, the Mississippi Delta faces a flood of epic proportions. If battered river levees collapse, everything important to you will be washed away. Rising Waters is a cooperative board game built around area control, set collection, and variable player power mechanics where players experience life through the lens of African American plight. In the game, you will confront two forces - racism from white landowners and the power of nature. Persevere by drawing on your community's courage and strength from your family, church, music, farming, and education. Can you manage the rising waters to stay alive? The game centers African Americans to help players understand and empathize with their plight during the 1920s environmental disaster.--Provided by publisher
ER  -