Bibliographic record
Abstract
My aim in this brief essay is to explore the emergence of Latinas/os as a new subject of inquiry in theAmericas, one of the key elements in EduardoMendieta’s longer, very suggestive article in this issue ofNepantla. I will also make, in passing, a few comments on three other elements central to his piece: the role of public intellectuals today, the importance of giving a postcolonial inflection to American pragmatism, and the significance of Cornel West as a model for intellectual work in the Americas today. Needless to say, I am deeply interested in these topics as well, and have much more to say about them, but they deserve more time and space than I have on this occasion. It could be said that U.S. Latinas/os provide a living challenge to the historical blueprints of American imaginaries, since their specific gaze on America often cuts through the customary North/South divide. It is therefore very important to ponder, as Mendieta’s essay does, what the Latino presence signifies, most specifically, what the role of Latinas/os will be as newly configured subjects with their own intellectual classes within the United States. I would only add that this is not only a question for the United States, or for the American school of pragmatic philosophy, but for Latin America and its intellectual traditions as well. Indeed, given the growing presence of Latinas/os in Canada, one could also add that nation to this new cartography and simply state that it is a question for the Americas as a whole, even if the focus on Latinas/os is primarily inspired by the great number of them living in the United States. A telling new book by Nestor Garcia Canclini, a well-known Argentine anthropologist who works in Mexico, carries the title Latinoamericanos buscando lugar en este siglo (2002 [Latin Americans looking for a place in this century]). One
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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 | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.045 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".