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    Elizabeth Minkel‏Verified account @elizabethminkel 5 Feb 2020

    Elizabeth Minkel Retweeted Publishers Weekly

    What's not mentioned in here, though highlighted in the press release I received, is how they picked these titles: they used ~AI~ to scour a corpus of 100+ books to determine whether or not the protagonist was explicitly described as white, and if they weren't, they went to town!https://twitter.com/PublishersWkly/status/1224830023347122178 …

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    Publishers WeeklyVerified account @PublishersWkly
    Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue to launch sales of classic novels with new covers promoting diversity @amNewYork https://pwne.ws/2GU1jN2  pic.twitter.com/uNPbP3LJcM
    5:08 am - 5 Feb 2020
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    • Ayori.eth aka 'Selfpreneur' Selassie ✊🏾 a = another world is possible Meghan C.C. Seita Author Ida Duque Diversity in Artificial Intelligence @ ACL 2022 sandy is taking a break! L Jack
    119 replies . 1,423 retweets 5,190 likes
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      2. Elizabeth Minkel‏Verified account @elizabethminkel 5 Feb 2020

        It's such a fundamental misunderstanding of the way whiteness has been historically constructed and the way race was written about prior to the past century!! (This particularly angers me as someone who focused on postcolonial analysis of Victorian literature in college....)

        4 replies . 129 retweets 1,395 likes
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      3. Elizabeth Minkel‏Verified account @elizabethminkel 5 Feb 2020

        Everyone is rightly talking about The Secret Garden, a novel explicitly about colonialist racism, but *many* of those books are subtextually or textually racialized. I think it's important to study them that way—and these covers are setting up one hell of a bait and switch.

        9 replies . 117 retweets 1,278 likes
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      4. Elizabeth Minkel‏Verified account @elizabethminkel 5 Feb 2020

        Elizabeth Minkel Retweeted

        Thank you for sharing this! More descriptive than the language of the press release, and to be wholly fair, they acknowledge here that it's not necessarily going to be *explicit*, but....BUT....??? https://twitter.com/benjanun_s/status/1225055069394989058?s=20 …

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      5. Elizabeth Minkel‏Verified account @elizabethminkel 5 Feb 2020

        Aaaand I'm going to mute this for the sake of my own sanity, but if you are retweeting or replying to this with any variation on "this is bad!!!" then please imagine I faved it.

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      2. Elizabeth Minkel‏Verified account @elizabethminkel 5 Feb 2020
        Replying to @stichomancery

        when I got the press release I shouted "WHY" out loud

        0 replies . 1 retweet 28 likes
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      2. Chris McCrudden‏ @cmccrudden 5 Feb 2020
        Replying to @elizabethminkel

        Omg, the Rowling post-publication diversity strategy. What a cursed world this is.

        1 reply . 6 retweets 253 likes
      3. Elizabeth Minkel‏Verified account @elizabethminkel 5 Feb 2020
        Replying to @cmccrudden

        the whole thing is so painful, it's like, they so obviously had good intentions, but it was wildly misguided from start to finish

        6 replies . 3 retweets 135 likes
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      2. Claire Rousseau‏ @ClaireRousseau 5 Feb 2020
        Replying to @elizabethminkel

        Did they genuinely think that made it better???

        1 reply . 0 retweets 47 likes
      3. Elizabeth Minkel‏Verified account @elizabethminkel 5 Feb 2020
        Replying to @ClaireRousseau

        I keep loling at the AI element of it, like, these are classics, you could've just asked like five English professors

        11 replies . 9 retweets 330 likes
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