Timothy J. Stanley. Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, AntiRacism, and the Making of Chinese Canadians
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Abstract
Timothy J. Stanley. Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, AntiRacism, and Making of Canadians. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2011. 326 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95 so. Perhaps first thing a reader might notice about this book is that it covers an ethnic relations topic about which many believe they are already quite aware. Most school textbooks and popular media sources now routinely refer to mistreatment of immigrants in Canada over past century or so. Likewise, many people have heard about Head Tax, and have learned of harsh labour conditions related to completion of our national railway. Perhaps not surprisingly, what Stanley capably uncovers in this carefully researched volume is that texture of Canadian experience is much more nuanced than we might have imagined. It is also compellingly written, and organization of chapters leads reader, not only chronologically but also conceptually, through this previously ignored piece of our national past. Stanley's narrative focus for book is on a particular Students' Strike in 1922-23 in Victoria, BC, in which over 200 students participated for over a year in action to protest school board's race-based segregation of their education. His historical approach to these events includes a critical anti-racist framework that resists binary notions of oppressor and victim. Instead, author emphasizes legitimacy of personal accounts in favour of relying only on official records and accounts from time. Stanley draws on a number of language sources that provide important and previously unavailable perspectives on events under consideration. The author's first chapter offers a helpful contextualizing of these events, with vital explication of sometimes invisible process of racialization necessary for race-based discrimination to take place. In accessible language, Stanley exposes mutable form of racisms that serve to create a particular set of representations, exclusions, and segregations. In case of immigrants and their families, particular setting of British Columbia is important, with its specific history and antiAsian sentiment that comprised backdrop for this remarkable set of events. This book is organized into two main parts, Racism and Anti-Racism, and former includes chapters on Student's Strike, on Anti-Chinese Racism and Colonial Project of British Columbia, racializing of both the Chinese (a more complicated category than easy label suggests) and the Canadian. Important information on organization of provincial schools as part of colonization, formation of racist state, and consequences of racialized exclusion, round out this rather gloomy section of book. …
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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