Free Space and Inner Space: A Place for Reconstructing Self and Other
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction This paper seeks to answer question: Who defines in which notions of self and other are constructed and reconstructed for women of African descent in African Diaspora and globally? (1) Audrey Lorde's statement that the master's tools will never dismantle master's (Lorde, 1984, p. 110), suggests that in quest to challenge oppression and contest notions of freedom, Africana women must begin by assessing not only tools but also in which they were created, by whom and in whose interest. The master's tools routinely deconstruct and reconstruct master's house but almost always in interest of master, suggesting that it is not tools that determine outcome but consciousness of builders and vested interests of those who contract them. For instance, critique of Eurocentrism has relied almost exclusively on European languages for articulation, disarticulation and re-articulation while simultaneously constructing an independent paradigm and epistemology of Africana resistance, transcendence and triumph. Postmodern feminists have suggested that use of language as a tool of oppression should be deconstructed as a means to oppressed minority women from white supremacist male dominance (De Beauvoir, 1974; Tong, 1998; hooks, 1984). Deconstruction as a method of confronting oppression is an African system of thought that Derrida claimed that he borrowed from African culture for purpose of challenging Eurocentrism (Derrida, 2008). This paper argues that dismantling of white supremacist masculine view of reality must begin with a deconstruction of in which language, rituals, religion, institutions and other tools of master are created and contested. For as Eric Williams (1997) emphatically stated, Massa Day Done! The day of master is over and done with, thank God almighty; We are at last! At least, we are freer than our enslaved ancestors, and we shall be freer still despite vicious attempts to re-enthrone massa through subtle and overt means in personal, group, communal, national and international spaces, a few examples of which include evening news reports on realities of reverse racism, Blackface incidents at institutions of higher education from Mississippi and Kansas City to Montreal, and reoccurring images of police brutality against Blacks. The aim of this paper is to explore and discuss a type of free space that encompasses multidimensional aspects of existence. The concept of free space rather than being limited to two or three dimensional understandings of physical context, location, and environment, includes notion of an intentionally created inner from which new rituals and communities emerge. This concept of and related rituals and communities would not necessarily be bound by physical proximity, but would exist and function to shape and transform constructions of self and other that are increasingly from oppressive masculinist worldview. Free is conceptualized as an ongoing project of resistance to all forms of imperialist domination. The paper argues that shared and blended history of patriarchy, capitalism, and racism has functioned to define in which various understandings of African Diasporic womanhood have emerged while simultaneously igniting sparks of resistance through which Africana womanism has always exercised autonomy (Hudson-Weems, 2008). (2) This exploration of free spaces is conducted in recognition of fact that western imperialism has never succeeded in completely eliding or erasing in entirety, resilient Africana originality in social structuration. The concept of free spaces and their potential for mobilizing individual and collective action for change will be explored and applied to ability of African Diasporic women and women in mother continent to re-define and address inherited or imposed gender ideologies that perpetuate social problems such as domestic violence, sex trafficking and increasing criminalization of Black women mainly due to war on drugs or seek to repress alternative democratic practices of personhood and community not defined by gender imperialism. …
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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 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| 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 it