Affirming blackness in ‘Post-racial' contexts: on race, colorism, and hybrid identities in Brazil
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Safran’s theorization of diaspora focused on a ‘myth of return', a conscious desire to return from banishment to a homeland or an identity. This paper extends Safran’s conceptualization of identity formation to highlight how four Afro-Brazilian community health workers (CHW) talk, imagine, celebrate, and reaffirm their African identity. The paper argues that by affirming blackness, CHW tell us something about the context of racialization and identity politics in Brazil. Relegated to the bottom of the stratification system and dominated by Euro-hegemonic structures, CHW negotiate their identities, leading to different forms of resistance. The paper shares their narratives of recovering an Afro-centric personhood that affirms their history, humanity, and lived experiences. This affirmation becomes a state of being and a process of becoming, a kind of voyage that encompasses the possibility of never leaving; a navigation of multiple belongings and networks of affiliation, particularly in modern contexts of post-racial theorizing.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".