What Scattered Ashes Leave behind: Expressions of Nuyorican Identity in Miguel Piñero’s A Lower East Side Poem
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Abstract
Miguel Pinero’s (1985) A Lower East Side Poem offers social and spatial critique of New York City’s Lower East Side and the corruption and neocolonialism that made it a contested domain in the 1970s and 80s. In so doing, the poem functions as Pinero’s last will and testament and description of how the urban landscape of The Lower East side was ground for reshaping Nuyorican identity. This essay takes A Lower East Side Poem as a starting point for understanding Nuyorican identity as a dynamic expression of vernacular cosmopolitan and indigenous concerns using rich rhetorical representations. Key words : Nuyorican; Rhetoric; Miguel Pinero; Puerto Rico; Identity; Vernacular Cosmopolitanism; Indigeneity Resume: Le poeme de Lower East Side de Miguel Pinero (1985) offre une critique sociale et spatiale sur le Lower East Side de la cite de New York et sur la corruption et le neocolonialisme qui l'ont transformee en un domaine conteste dans les annees 1970 et 80. Cela faisant, le poeme fonctionne comme le dernier souhait et le testament de Pinero et la description de la facon dont le paysage urbain du Lower East Side a ete broye pour remodeler l'identite Nuyoricane. Cet essai considere Le Poeme de Lower East Side comme le point de depart pour comprendre l'identite Nuyoricane comme une expression dynamique de quietudes vernaculaires cosmopolitaines et indigenes en utilisant des representation rhetoriques riches Mots-cles: Nuyorican; Rhetorique; Miguel Pinero; Puerto Rico; Identite; Cosmopolitanisme Vernaculaire; Indigeneite
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 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 | 0.010 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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