Bibliographic record
Abstract
Using articles from Canadian mainstream media, discussions withCanada’s South Asian community, and interviews with young second-generationSouth Asian women about their relationships with school and familyduring the early to mid-1990s, Handa sets out to contest the dominantculture clash model that has been used to explain how South Asian adolescentsare “torn” or “caught” between the values of “traditional” (SouthAsian) and “modern” (Canadian) culture. Handa argues,... that women and youth have become symbols of the sets of values thatare seen to be in need of protection from the process of modern socialprogress … certain notions of women and youth are mobilized in order tomaintain and assert specific notions of identity and belonging. (p. 19)Also, she points out that “South Asian cultural identities rely on particulardefinitions of womanhood in order to assert a distinct Eastern identity visà-vis the West” (p. 19).The book is organized into seven chapters. The first chapter situates thecentral issues and questions she raises in her book amidst recollections ofher past experiences in Canada and her reflections on present-day changesin Canada’s South Asian community. The bulk of this chapter focuses oncritiquing the dominant “culture clash” model in an effort to underscore itsinadequacies. This critique hinges primarily on theoretical discussions ofculture and identity, which become the theoretical framework for her work.In the following five chapters, the author shares her findings, analyses,and arguments. Each chapter focuses on developing one particular aspectof her central argument, although many common subtexts and themesthread their way through them. Some of the main themes and subtexts arethe invisibility of whiteness in relation to the ethnicity of browness; the centralityof a white Canadian identity and the maintenance of white power andprivilege; and the positioning of young South Asian women by discoursesof East/West, modern/traditional, and brown/white, as well as their continuousnegotiation of identities. In the last chapter, Handa plants the seeds ofpossibility for a collective political voice of opposition to racism built onblack and South Asian diasporic voices ...
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.000 | 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".