Bibliographic record
Abstract
David R. Newhouse, Cora J. Voyageur, and Dan Beavon (eds), Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions to Canadian Identity and Culture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), xxiv + 458 pp. Paper. £22. ISBN 0-8020-8800-7. In the final essay of this collection, Cora Voyageur and Dan Beavon declare, 'We are optimistic that Aboriginal people are emerging from the margins of Canadian society' (p. 448). This book represents a vigorous, informed, and lively part of this growing recognition of Aboriginal contributions to Canadian society. Vast in its scope, both historically and topically, this collection makes visible the unrecognised role that Aboriginal people have played in the founding, forming, and continuing development of the Canadian state and Canadian identity. This collection presents both a general orientation to the legal and political landscape of issues surrounding Aboriginal peoples in Canada, and an account of the specific yet immanent contributions of Aboriginal people in areas of art, literature, justice, culture, sports and military. This monograph thus serves as both an acutely tuned general resource on Aboriginal peoples' contributions to Canada and a detailed assembly of the Aboriginal individuals and collectives that have made such important, yet often elided contributions to Canadian society. To draw two contrasting examples from the text, firstly Drew Hayden Taylor in the essay 'Laughing Till Your Face is Red' tells of her own experiences as an Aboriginal playwright among 'colour-denied' (p. 208) theatre audiences. This entertaining discussion humorously explores how Native humour has had a difficult reception in non-Native populations, as 'pigment challenged' audiences have had to learn to react to humour that often has the history of Aboriginal oppression as a referent. This essay also, however, gives a hopeful picture as greater Aboriginal contributions to literature have begun to garner more understanding of the often biting and poignant humour in the works of Aboriginal writers. In his essay, Russel Barsh, exploring the political and ethical significance of Aboriginal peoples, contends that Aboriginal peoples have 'created a dialectic about justice in Canadian society' (p. 287), and as such have tempered how the Canadian state faces all of the challenges it faces, such as immigration and globalisation. While an essay collection with the vast scope and diversity of this book, at first glance, could be seen merely as a loosely sewn together patchwork of disparate topics, there are some remarkably strong themes that are probed throughout the very different topical treatments. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.042 | 0.024 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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".