Real Canadians: Exclusion, Participation, Belonging, and Male Military Mobilization in Wartime Canada, 1939–45
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article demonstrates the role that exclusionary rationalities within Canada’s Second World War mobilization system had on what kinds of peoples were able to contribute to polity, nationalism, and cultural identity during the war period. With the onset of the Second World War, cultural understandings of belonging and Canadianness were tied to a vision of civic nationalism bound tightly to participation in the war effort. During the war, Canada’s National Registration program was employed to identify Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Negro, and other racialized populations for the specific purpose of excluding them from being mobilized to serve in the Armed Forces, thus from participating in Canadian society in this crucial way. This article demonstrates how policies adopted by mobilization officials in the calling of men into service between 1939 and 1945 worked to govern those who could take up these key identity performances tied to civic nationalism, racialize those who could not, and normalize British white male soldier/worker-citizens as real Canadians.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 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".