The Politics of Making Home: Opening Up the Work of Richard Iton in Canadian Hip Hop Context
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Toronto hip hop music from approximately 1986–2000 featured several successful singles that demonstrated a focus on representational patterns, where the city was refashioned aligned with the aesthetics of AfroCaribbean diasporic communities. These tracks can be read as aggressive sonic attempts at fashioning a counterdiscourse to exclusionary local politics with the biopolitics of hip hop music and aesthetics that made “home,” forging nodes of belonging in the diaspora. Popular renderings of Afrodiasporic life reproduced an exclusionary logic that continued to render Aboriginal life not only invisible but also relationally irrelevant to notions of “home” and articulations of “belonging.” Moving through a colonial sublime that grounded an aesthetics of belonging on the exclusion of Aboriginal populations, hip hop's superpublic have worked through and begun to recognize the contingent nature of belonging and the necessary inclusion and consideration of Aboriginal presence.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.079 | 0.035 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| 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".