:Brother's Keeper: The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937–1962
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jason C. Parker uses the cases of two British Caribbean colonies, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, to explore what he terms a “central puzzle of twentieth-century foreign relations and international history scholarship”: that is, the nature of the “relationship between Third World decolonization and the Cold War” (p. 4). His book is a political history that highlights negotiations among politicians and government officials, primarily those of the United States, Great Britain, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica. But with his emphasis on the significance of the African diaspora in Cold War-era policy decisions, Parker has opted to include non-political actors in these exchanges and to consider the importance of race as well as national security issues during this fraught period. The result is a complex but never confusing narrative based on impressive archival scholarship. In examining this subject, Parker makes a solid contribution to the historical scholarship of the twentieth-century British Caribbean and the African diaspora. Although it is no longer accurate to say the post-emancipation British Caribbean has been neglected by historians, the period examined by Parker has received relatively limited attention from members of this profession. Yet the years between the labor unrest of the 1930s and independence in the 1960s and 1970s are important. They saw the emergence of political parties, the slow growth of political autonomy, the rise and fall of the West Indies Federation, and the arrival of independence in much of the region. These developments did not matter only to West Indians; as Parker argues, the U.S. and British governments and members of the African diaspora watched these events closely. As British colonies located on the “doorstep of a hegemonic superpower” (p. 5) and as the birthplace of many blacks resident in the United States, the British Caribbean was of great, albeit intermittent, interest to all three.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".