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Record W2408798391 · doi:10.1057/9780230623743_7

From Harlem to Algiers

2009· book-chapter· en· W2408798391 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 2009
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican history and culture studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGuard (computer science)ColonialismQuarter (Canadian coin)HollywoodLawHistoryArt historyArtPolitical scienceArchaeology

Abstract

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In 1959, african american intellectual and activist hoyt fuller made a brief stopover in Algeria on his way to visit the newly independent African republic of Guinea. In an excerpt from a journal of his experiences, he recounts, "Algeria was an armed camp, with the French colonial masters firmly in control. Soldiers and gendarmes were everywhere, arms at the ready, and many of the public buildings were 'protected' from guerilla assault by layers of barbed wire." He continues, "I had entered the city from the liner, Foch, with two young Africans, one from Abidjan, the other from Brazzaville, and we had moved about with relative freedom until we reached the famed Casbah, the incredible labyrinthine quarter made famous over the world by Hollywood's film, Algiers, starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr. The armed guard at the entrance to the Casbah politely but firmly turned the three black visitors away, offering no explanation beyond the simple statement that entrance was forbidden." After his two African companions decided to return to the passenger ship, Fuller again attempted to enter the Casbah by himself, this time successfully so. As he explains, "In Paris, an Algerian friend had given me the name of a young freedom fighter in the Casbah and I set out to locate him." Fuller eventually found this young freedom fighter and his comrades, with whom he "drank coffee and talked of African liberation. Afterwards," he relays, "they walked with me down a twisting 'street' to the entrance above the great plaza. We said goodby. As I strolled out, a guard stopped me.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.631
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.260
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it