"Because I am in All Cultures at the Same Time": Intersections of Gloria Anzaldua's Concept of Mestizaje in the Writings of Latin American Jewish Women Writers
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Abstract
As a woman who consistently confronts institutionalized racism, class exploitation, sexism and homophobia, Gloria Anzaldua insists on illuminating multiple systems of exploitation that apply to oppressed groups resisting incorporation by dominant cultures. In Borderlands/La Frontera, Anzaldua's theory of the New Mestiza provides a paradigm for looking at how Latin American Jewish women writers also define their narrative form through the concept of mestizaje, or mestizo culture. Moreover, just as Anzaldua's multiple identity as a working-class-origin lesbian of color allows her to include other internal struggles in the analysis, so Jewish women in Latin Ameican, through questioning and deconstructing the patriarchy during recent military tyrannies in that country, have made important contributions in feminist and queer writing. By demonstrating that they are hybrids, Latin American Jewish writers create a space between different worlds. By thus acknowledging the specific struggles across geopolitical lines, feminism can build new bridges and continue to develop as a politically significant body of ideas.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".