"We'd rather be 'red' than dead"-Embracing one's difference through selected native canadian fiction for children and young adults
Bibliographic record
Abstract
To a large degree the personal identity of contemporary Aboriginals in Canada is constituted by difference.As they seek to define their ideal selves, part of their definition is in relation to what they are not and do not want to be... (Haun, 2003: 46) I believe it is important to start by decoding the title I chose for my dissertation, which hides a patchwork quilt of questions that we will find in the fifth and subsequent paragraphs and which constitute the aim of this study.The first part of the title, "We"d rather be "red" than dead", is a quotation by the Okanagan author whose books I intend to analyse.In fact, Jeannette Armstrong"s protagonist, in her novel entitled Slash, participates in several demonstrations and, at a certain point, "[e]verybody walked along chanting the slogan and it was like one huge voice saying, "We"d rather be "Red" than dead"" (1996a: 54).This awakening is something that needs to be achieved and nurtured, according to the author, and it constitutes the main message of her works.First Nations must be proud of whom they are, of their heritage and we all, generally speaking, need to learn how to understand and respect our differences; we need to accept diversity as a positive virtue, to embrace it as an ideal condition.What differences are being addressed?This is a very pertinent question which must be clarified, since the term difference is part of the title and it has often been a point of controversy throughout the process of conception of this dissertation, due to its ambiguity.To give but one example, during a Symposium in which I participated in May 2008, in Montpellier, France, -this term was debated for its vagueness and broadness, requiring qualification having in view concepts such as race/ethnicity, culture, gender, or class.I believe, however, that even though the term difference is problematicits meaning is difficult to grasp because it is ideologically, socially and institutionally constructed; it is fabricated by discourse and influenced by a particular
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".