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....)
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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.
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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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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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when I got the press release I shouted "WHY" out loud
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Omg, the Rowling post-publication diversity strategy. What a cursed world this is.
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the whole thing is so painful, it's like, they so obviously had good intentions, but it was wildly misguided from start to finish
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Did they genuinely think that made it better???
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I keep loling at the AI element of it, like, these are classics, you could've just asked like five English professors
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