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Record W3178088232 · doi:10.1017/9781108773522.007

Globetrotting, 1949–1960

2021· book-chapter· en· W3178088232 on OpenAlexaff
John Wharton Lowe

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2021
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTravel Writing and Literature
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWrightDreamWhite (mutation)Art historyCosmopolitanismEthnographyTRIPS architectureRelocationPower (physics)ArtMedia studiesHistorySociologyPolitical scienceLawAnthropologyPoliticsEngineeringPsychology

Abstract

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This essay details Wright’s extensive travels after his permanent relocation to France in 1946, including his long sojourn in Argentina for the filming of Native Son, and his stops, going and coming, in Trinidad, Uruguay, and Haiti, which brought him into contact with leading hemispheric intellectuals. Major concentration is given to Wright’s extended trips to Ghana; Spain; and Indonesia for the seminal Bandung Conference, journeys that brought him into contact with key global leaders such as Nkrumah and Nehru, and resulted in the important non-fiction works Black Power, Pagan Spain, and The Color Curtain. These travels and frequent talks he gave in various European countries are shown to have influenced a fourth non-fiction work, White Man Listen!. His meditations on his travels also had a part in his imaginative return to Mississippi in his final novel, The Long Dream, and in the global perspective of his innovative creation of hundreds of haikus. Wright’s cosmopolitanism sharpened his existing interest in travel writing, photography, ethnography, postcolonialism, and the possibilities of international bonds between people of color.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.032
Threshold uncertainty score0.106

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0320.005

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.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.179
Teacher spread0.155 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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