How We See Ourselves : The Beauty Makeup of the Black Canadian Woman
Bibliographic record
Abstract
How We See Ourselves: The Beauty Makeup of the Black Canadian Woman Susan-Blanche Chato The concept of beauty is a prime value in North American culture yet the feminine beauty ideal has conventionally been associated with the White population, causing a dichotomy of norms between Whites and non-Whites.This thesis reviews the historical and contextual nature of beauty amongst women of African descent and the Diaspora in the works of Patricia Hill Collins, bell hooks, Malcolm X, W.E.B DuBois and many others on such topics as skin color, hair texture, health, body image and racism.To determine the continuing salience of these issues in the lives of Black women, I interviewed and surveyed ten second generation African (Black) Canadians.The were integral to this project.First, I would like to thank God for placing me on this journey and for teaching me a new meaning of strength, perseverance and focus.I would also like to express my gratitude to my thesis committee.An immense thanks to Dr. Anthony Synnott whose resourcefulness, patience and guidance illuminated the many dimensions of this project.His encouragement and experience throughout the research process was invaluable.Special thanks to Professor Brenda Rowe and Dr. Meir Amor for their insightful suggestions, unwavering support and constructive dialogue.I am deeply grateful to all the respondents for sharing their thoughts and stories.Their voices were the motivating force in completing this project and they have enlightened me to the new possibilities linked to this subject matter more than they will ever know.A special thanks to my father, Dr. Martin Chato for his patience editing the drafts and his sound input.Also, thanks extend to Dr. Roger MacLean for his foresight, optimism and reassurance over the course of this project.My heartfelt appreciation and love goes out to those whose support and compassion over this period of time was a blessing.They prayed and -stood in the gap‖ throughout the process and were part of my inspiration, in particular my mother Victoria, Aunty
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.070 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".