Bibliographic record
Abstract
Toward an Asian North American Liberationist Hermeneutics," is an approach to and application of liberationist hermeneutics to help Asian-North Americans to better understand and analyze their context.Kato begins by giving an account of the situation of Asian-North Americans.Both as a group and as individuals, they still suffer subtle discrimination and marginalization, sometimes expressed as a "bamboo ceiling."More often than not, they are treated as a homogenous group, seen as perpetual foreigners, are subjected to a stereotypical orientalism, and suffer from jealousy and hate-crimes.He asks, "How can Asian-North Americans resist the typical forms of discrimination and oppression they encounter, envision another possible world and work toward transforming this present one?"Drawing from David Tracy's suggestion of a hermeneutical process, Kato urges the audience to bring their experience and context into selecting and reading biblical texts and then engaging them in a transformative response to reality.By way of example, Kato compares and contrasts the two gospel portraits of Jesus by Mark and John.He relates Mark's tragic figure of Jesus to his own social locations as inter-racial, interreligious and a bearer of a hybrid Asian-Canadian identity.Embracing one's identity, Kato argues, can bring one the strength and courage to continue the struggle, both to resist the unjust hegemony of the powers-that-be and to achieve a fuller humanity for all, especially those who are subjected to any kind of marginalization Focusing on the situation of overseas Filipino workers, Rachel Bundang's paper, "'My Family's Slave': A Theo-Ethical Reflection on Modern-Day Slavery," uses the late Alex Tizon's essay "My Family's Slave" as the basis for a theo-ethical reflection on modern-day slavery in the form of the plight of migrant domestic workers.In the process of migration-in the shift from one home to another, one culture to another, and especially one generation to another-what was once taken as normal, ordinary behavior becomes an unintelligible cruelty that does not translate neatly in diaspora.The essay recounts the story of the Tizons' nanny and domestic helper, Eudocia, who was separated from her family as a child and ended up spending most of her life taking care of three generations of her host family for 56 years, both in the Philippines and later in the United States.After she died in the diaspora, Tizon managed to bring her ashes home to her few remaining family members but was met with silence.Bundang's analysis of the story explores complex intersections of gendered labor, economic exploitation, and physical and emotional violence endured by the domestic worker.Tizon's story of the untold suffering and isolation of Eudocia challenges everyone involved to rethink what enslavement, servitude, trafficking and poverty mean and in what way we are all complicit in the existence and perpetuation of these practices.Bundang raised three important points in this situation: a) Can the subaltern speak?b)
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.044 | 0.003 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".