The Black, Brown, White, and Red Blues: The Beating of Clarence Clemons
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A number of recent works have dealt with 'human rights history,' concentrating upon the efforts of groups to improve protection for human rights in the immediate postwar period. This paper deals with one aspect of this history. However, while earlier publications have often examined developments in Ontario and at the national level, this paper investigates human rights history in British Columbia, although also demonstrating that the Vancouver human rights community had close ties to Ontario groups and national human rights organizations. To do this, the paper presents a case study the beating (by the police) and subsequent death of a black longshoreman in 1952. The case was, for awhile, a minor cause célèbre in Vancouver, but it is difficult to conclude that justice was served by the efforts of the human rights community, for local activists were badly fragmented by racial, class, and ideological divisions, as well as by the reluctance of most 'respectable' Vancouverites to admit that racism was a serious issue. If Canada since the war has been transformed by a 'rights revolution,' in the early fifties the process had just begun.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".