Negotiating Canadian multiculturalism During Quebecois Separatist Events of the Sixties: Between the “Italian Wop” and the “Flying Egyptian”
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Over the years much has been written exploring the multiculturalism as a term. In the texts of Marco Micone and Saad Elkhadem under study the goal is to trace the nuances related to multiculturalism descriptively in practice during the period of growing unrest in Quebec in the 1960s which is dealt with in both texts. Through analysis of the writing of Canadian immigrant writers like Micone and Elkhadem, various questions impose themselves regarding the feasiblity for inclusiveness for people of diverse origins under the umbrella of multiculturalism. The need to traverse the primary and secondary affiliations and cultural tendencies of immigrants becomes pressing though in and of itself an elusive task. Elusive in the sense that designating the affiliations that are open to change and those that are not can be quite daunting. Competing histories in the lives of immigrants constantly foreground themselves. Immigrants upon coming to Canada bring along personal ethnic histories and language affiliations which complicate the workings of official multiculturalism. As a result, these histories and languages supposedly die as separate and unique structures and reappear in ghost form within multiculturalism, leaving immigrants in a liminal state which has been both considered productive and detrimental. Marco Micone’s play Voiceless People (1984) and Saad Elkhadem’s novella Canadian Adventures of the Flying Egyptian (1990) explore the convoluted nature of identity construction and multiculturalism within Canada during the separatist period.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.057 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".