Negritude, Americanization and human rights in Gorée, Senegal: The Maison de Esclaves 1966–2019
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Based on historical research, and in situ observations, this article examines the history of the Maison des Esclaves as an example of Moyn's argument that interest in human rights arose as a response to the failures of previous idealistic movements, especially nationalism and socialism, and, by the 1970s, the feeling that decolonization had failed. Originating as an expression of Negritude idealism and cultural nationalism, with the Senegalese state's loss of interest in the Maison, the state's larger failure to promote the interests of its inhabitants and ongoing American ties with Senegal's universities and cultural institutions, the Maison shifted its perspective on the slave trade to a human rights approach. This change linked the museum to a supportive international network. But, today, as the Maison's new, human rights-oriented exhibits are still in preparation, they are already being overshadowed by the new Musée des Civilisations Noires, a monumental expression of Negritude and nationalism, supported by the Chinese government. This latest development points to challenges that human rights regimes and museums worldwide may be facing in the coming years.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 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".