I wrote about the publishing industry's post #BLM diversity push - the largest transformation of its kind in US history - and their current attempts to dismantle it, for quite dubious reasons w/ @dan_sinykin at @TheAtlantic. A thread to summarize the article's main arguments >>> US fiction publishing 1950-2018 was 95% white authors. We did some research and found - quite astonishingly - that number drops to 75% white authors within only 4 years post BLM. This is the largest race-based transformation of the book industry in history. It is unprecedented.

I've been seeing the following a lot: "I'm OK with science but until I see digital research that teaches me SOMETHING NEW abt the novel, poetics etc I won't be interested in DH." Thing is there's a lot of work already out there that does that. Here's a thread w/ a lot of examples Before I get going, just want to say: it's not like this work is obscure! Special issue of PMLA; special forum of @CriticalInquiry, monographs f/ @ColumbiaUP & @UChicagoPress. It's been at the center of the discipline! If you haven't noticed, perhaps you haven't been rly looking.

Hi friends, w/ Gus Wezerek, I wrote an op-ed for @nytimes on racial inequality and publishing, based on data and interviews. It builds on research in my forthcoming book, REDLINING CULTURE(Columbia UP). Here's a v short thread to underscore some of our key points --->

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1337438255843864581

History says that periodically big publishers attempt to diversify by hiring POC editors but history also says, such efforts are often short lived, and they revert to a state of inequality within years. The current moment faces this same danger, if we don't have structural change