Can anyone think of a game to make for a class?

Question

the book is about environment, modernity, inequality, race, class, and resistance... and we have to come up with a game for the class to play teaching them about these 2 chapters!

Answer 1

This is a typical assignment from a leftist who is trying to program your loyalties instead of teaching you mathmatics and the foundations of learning.  I would ignore the assignment and tell him the game already exists in Texas Hold Em and the chessboard.

Answer 2

http://www.group-games.com/

google ice breakers.. and find one that makes sense to the book

Answer 3

Have you ever tried this privilege icebreaker?  It deals with issues of race, class, environment and inequality very directly.  I've done it a few different ways, and you can adapt aspects to your class size and space, but the basics are like this:  Everyone stands together in a line.  You make a series of statements (20 is good), asking participants to step forward, or backward, if....   For example, "Take one step forward if your household had access to a computer" or "Take one step backward if you're from a single family home" or "Take one step forward if one of your parents complete college".  There are good lists of these questions online, but you can also come up with your own as long as you're careful to identify what factors might enable certain privileges over the course of a lifetime.  

At the end, you ask participants to look around and talk about what their position in line means.  It is a good exercise to talk about structural inequalities and address the ways in which inequalities continue to privilege some at the expense of others.  If you were to begin a race with these starting positions, sure everybody has a chance to succeed, but some have a much better chance than others, regardless of hard work.

I hope that is helpful!