Liberal Multiculturalism and the Limits of Recognition in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood
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Abstract
In recent years, critics of Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood (1997) seem to have developed a consensus that the novel presents a cosmopolitan view of diasporic identity. While I agree with these critics, I believe that their “cosmopolitan theses” have yet to articulate why Phillips chooses to present a cosmopolitan view of diasporic identity. To this end, I shall argue that, in The Nature of Blood, Phillips’s cosmopolitanism emerges as a conscious response to the failure of multiculturalism to recognize what Robin Cohen (2008) calls “victim diasporas” in liberal states. Phillips suggests that, for diasporic groups who have suffered a history of collective trauma, a cosmopolitan view of cultural identity, which draws upon histories of shared experiences and morality across cultures, is far more tenable than an essentialist view of cultural identity.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 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 it