Guess My Race Reviews

Guess My Race

pjsjerry

I LOVE this app because it allows fair speculation of race in a positive, learning environment. I'm glad I found it. The faces are fascinating and the implied lessons learned are worth so much more than the 99 cents cost of the app. While I don't yet own an iPad, the faces full screen would look like portraits in a gallery, they are that striking. I don't think there is another app like this one. I wish everyone had this and shared it with friends. The world needs more of this. Thank you.

Many levels

seetipper

This is a fantastic app. The author clearly put so much time, thought, and expertise into it. Not only have I learned a lot about race and perception, but the voyeuristic "game" aspect has kept me flipping images for hours. It is also, on occasion, very funny. Highly recommended.

Mr

BillyB333

This is very cool!

Great app!

RunninggirlNYC

This app is really fun and different! Reading through the quotes and blurbs is informative, interesting and educational and has kept me flipping through the pictures for hours at a time.

Waste of money.

Curfy

The term "race" is defined by people as differently as night and day. Some people answered the question as to what "race" they think they were and some people answered as what ethnicity they were. Either way the question to be answered has so many possibilities of answers, this game should be called "what do I consider myself" not "what race am I" because I may consider you white per say while you consider yourself American...I apparently got that answer wrong.

Useful

bobo6205

I have used the program to begin discussions on the social construction of race, hypodescent, etc. Students have enjoyed this approach.

It does more harm than good.

B4.5

While trying to get people to think from other people's view point it also plays into other stereotypes.

Slightly offensive

Pnxnotded

This app would have gotten five stars from me had the first supposed factual information I received not referred to white people as "privileged". For an app that says everyone has their own personal experiences and no one should judge them, it certainly judged me as a white person right off the bat.

No such thing

Steeltoro

There is no such race as African American, Asian American, etc. You are eithet American or you are not. Oh wait, i see. Only whites are "Americans", right?

Racist crap.

Coolout

About what you'd expect, going by the screenshots. And nobody is a different race than they look... or at least, not that they claim to be. As someone else pointed out, it goes by what people consider themselves, not where they fall anthropologically. I thought it was going to touch on misconceptions due to stereotypes and ignorance, but instead it fed right into them. How can someone be racially (ethnically??) American, anyway? How could someone *guess* a person to be racially American?? It's just more offensive PC stuff. Initial 5-star reviews are fake.