Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although biculturality has been well documented in Vietnamese American fiction, Kien Nguyen’s The Unwanted: A Memoir is the first autobiography to document the biracial experience of growing up Amerasian under communist rule in post-1975 Vietnam. Neither victim nor perpetrator in a war practically erased from the pages of The Unwanted , Kien depicts his biraciality as a struggle to separate the personal from the political. His status as a biracial individual remains tied to an intrapersonal war between the ambivalent figure of his south Vietnamese mother and her parasitic boyfriend. Although set in the aftermath of violent armed conflict between North Vietnam and the United States, Nguyen’s memoir casts the south Vietnamese as the deviant ones who perpetuate intrafamilial violence and xenophobia. Drawing upon the burgeoning field of trauma studies, this article argues how it is only by leaving Vietnam and narrating the trauma of his racialized body that Kien is able to end his struggle for self-determination and reclaim a sense of agency.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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 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".