A War Within a War: Canadian Reactions to D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation
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Abstract
L’extraordinairement populaire film épique de D.W. Griffith est sorti au Canada en 1915, pendant la guerre. Basé sur le roman et la pièce de théâtre The Clansman de Thomas Dixon, le film adoptait un point de vue pro-sudiste sur la Guerre civile et la période de la reconstruction qui diabolisait les Afro-Américains et les abolitionnistes et encensait le Ku Klux Klan. Le présent article se penche sur les réactions à ce film au Canada en 1915 et en 1916, notamment sur les manifestations organisées par les Afro-Canadiens, généralement sous l’égide de congrégations religieuses. The Birth of a Nation s’est avéré un casse-tête pour les bureaux provinciaux de censure dans un pays supposément réfractaire à la culture de la violence américaine et favorable au « fair-play » britannique. Au cours de la guerre, les Afro-Canadiens ont fait appel aux sens de la citoyenneté, du patriotisme et de l’esprit britannique pour organiser une lutte rapide, quoique vaine, en faveur des droits civiques et à l’encontre d’un produit culturel américain envahissant.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".