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Record W2603477401 · doi:10.3138/jcfs.32.3.419

Contesting the Rhetoric of ‘Black Family Breakdown’ from Barbados

2001· article· en· W2603477401 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Christine Barrow

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Comparative Family Studies · 2001
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCaribbean history, culture, and politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRhetoricSociologyNuclear familyGender studiesSocioeconomic statusResidencePopulationAbandonment (legal)Extended familyCriminologyPolitical scienceDemographyLawAnthropology

Abstract

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The paper contests the persistent rhetoric of “black family breakdown”, defined in contemporary Barbadian discourse as the fragmentation of both the Afro-Caribbean extended family, and also the Euro-centred nuclear unit based on marriage and co-residence which has been consistently and for generations promoted as the model to which the black population should aspire. Separating myth from reality on selected issues which are highlighted as evidence of “family breakdown”, namely child discipline and abuse, adolescent sexuality and pregnancy, divorce and the so-called “abandonment” of the elderly, the paper recommends a greater appreciation of family structure and change as a process of reconfiguration in alternative ideological and cultural patterns within the historical and socioeconomic environment of Barbados, and the rejection of the deficit model of black families in social and moral crisis.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.205
Threshold uncertainty score0.442

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.174
GPT teacher head0.390
Teacher spread0.215 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Citations32
Published2001
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