Black Transnationalism as Communitas: African Involvement in the National Negro Convention Movement, 1831-1864
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper analyzes West African and Afro-Caribbean involvement in the National Negro Convention Movement of 1830 to 1864. These people participated in the struggle for African American emancipation by invoking tropes of a Black transnational community. Thus, this paper argues that transnational discourse, movement and migrationbased on peoples roots and routes throughout the Black Atlantic, including to and from West Africainformed Black nationalist political agendas. An examination of National Negro Convention minutes, as well as mid-nineteenth-century African American newspaper articles, reveals how African and Afro-Caribbean participants simultaneously served as advocates for transnational and national movements. In addition to partaking in debates surrounding emigration to Africa, Canada, and the West Indies, Africans and Afro-Caribbeans backed the development of Black institutions within the United States, which they hoped would enhance African American equality; however, they also advocated for Black transnational participation, in order to improve their own communities. Hence, Black transnationalism and the trope of African origins as the basis for communitas shaped Black nationalist movements. This paper, in turn, serves as a methodological exploration of the African diaspora as a useful framework through which to understand Africans role in the creation of local rhizomes within a transnational network.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
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".