<i>A mari usque ad mare</i>: Wayde Compton’s British Columbian Afroperiphery
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay attempts to perform a “disorientation” of received notions about the black diaspora through the work of the black Canadian writer Wayde Compton, a key figure in placing in conversation a circumatlantic mooring of blackness and a Pacific Rim perspective through the construction of a black (Canadian) Pacific as a contact zone with other historical British Columbian populations, most of all Indigenous and Asian. It reads his poetry, short fiction and essays to show how roots and routes come together in Compton’s communal and artistic projects, and how they reconcile the apparently antithetical pulls of regionalism and diaspora, mapping out the connected itineraries of diverse peoples both within the Pacific board of North America and across the Pacific Ocean. The essay traces some of the major symbols and recurrent features of Compton’s work in outlining the cartography of the black Pacific, including the boat and the island, and argues that it is generally inflected by his location vis-à-vis the broader nation as well as by the transnational flows of black history that have shaped not just black British Columbia but also the city of Vancouver and the whole nation-state of Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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.
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".