<b>Ladelle McWhorter</b>, <i>Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy</i> (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), ISBN: 978-0253352965
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Abstract
Twin DangersLadelle McWhorter introduces her book, Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy, with an account of her experiences during the days between the attack on and the death of Matthew Shepard.On sabbatical near Pennsylvania State University in October of 1998, McWhorter describes following these events as they were covered by the media and discussed on a Penn State University LGBT listserv.A day and a half after Shepard's death, McWhorter attended a candlelight vigil for Shepard organized by Penn State University students.It was raining, only thirty people were present, their voices could scarcely be heard over the sounds of traffic, and the event risked being more disheartening than consoling.An attempt was made to salvage the vigil through song, and someone suggested singing ‚We Shall Overcome,‛ but none of the students knew the words.McWhorter realized that she was the only person present who could lead the group in a song that might bring a sense of hope and closure to the otherwise depressing gathering.However, as she describes, she was wary of calling ‚upon the memory and power of African American movements for justice and freedom in order to further the rights and interests, or at least comfort the fearful souls of nonheterosexual people.‛(10)She writes, it was important for Matthew Shepard to remain Matthew Shepard and Emmett Till to remain Emmett Till, two separate individuals whose living and dying are different events in human history.I believed it was important to remember the differences between black and queer struggles, subcultures, and experiences of oppression.( 9)McWhorter recalls the memory of a gay African American friend who insisted that the struggles of African Americans and queer people against racism and heterosexism were ‚not the same.‛(9) And so, for all these reasons, McWhorter did not sing and the gathering disintegrated without closure.Each one of us wandered away, carrying with us, not a sense that despite the violence and injustice all around us life can go on and love and respect do still exist -which is, I suppose, what the candlelight shining in the darkness at such vigils is intended to instil in us -but rather with that sense of futility and hopelessness that drizzle and senseless death inspire.( 5)
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.097 | 0.025 |
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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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